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Kimberly Bunker Number 41 That place is infinity, the same infinity that requires all this living and dying and living. George Saunders Interview by David Naimon My idea is that life is so strange and so unknowable and so beautiful that you might have to resort to extraordinary means to really get some of that on the page. Mark Hitz Shadehill She hated the place. Hated the wind, the dust, the bad water pressure, but believed, correctly, that as long as it was standing and put-together, we would converge. Barbara Ganley Language Lessons There are no life preservers to throw, no lifeboats to launch, no maps to draw, no words to offer. Greg Schreur Third World Kroger Between here and there is Birch Field, which we think of as a mental hospital, which it is, but it's more than that. Sommer Schafer The Final Sermon He'd always thought he just didn't know how to handle money, but recently it had become clear to him that he'd just never had enough of it. Marko Gregur Drinkopoly My intelligence is above the average. Sitting at this table, that's more than obvious. Benjamin Percy Interview by Andrew Scott A short story is a stylistically vigorous glimpse of a life. Samsun Knight Family of Four David knows that his family is insane the way one knows the nature of most things within a dream. Kurt Rheinheimer The Cabin Who knew if it was in my mother's head all the time in the car and it couldn't really come out until they were in the kitchen in Blueston, or whether the whole idea really did just come to be thought about then. Ming Holden Keller's Ranch The whole of Santa Barbara County is a pile of matchsticks. I forgot the heaviness of July. Natasha Tamate Weiss What It Means to Rush I was a born listener and was always listening, listening and nodding, even when I didn't understand; I nodded myself into understanding. Hugh Burkhart<b