Peter Baida "A Nurse's Story" Introduced by Sherman Alexie Cary Holladay "Merry-Go-Sorry" Introduced by Stephen King Alice Munro "Save the Reaper" Introduced by Lorrie Moore The New Yorker David Foster Wallace "The Depressed Person" George Saunders "Sea Oak" Jhumpa Lahiri "Interpreter of Maladies" Gerald Reilly "Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree" Michael Cunningham "Mister Brother" Chaim Potok "Moon" Robert Schirmer "Burning" W.D. Wetherell "Watching Girls Play" Sheila M. Schwartz "Afterbirth" Michael Chabon "Son of the Wolfman" Pinckney Benedict "Miracle Boy" T. Coraghessan Boyle "The Underground Gardens" Kiana Davenport "Fork Used in Eating Reverend Baker" Charlotte Forbes "Sign" Julia Whitty "A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga" Annie Proulx "The Mud Below"