1. Francine Prose, "Pumpkins"
2. Dan O'Brien, "Crossing Spider Creek": http://the-awesomest-blog.blogspot.com/2007/10/crossing-spider-creek-and-alternate.html
3. Allen Woodman, "Wallet"
4. Bruce Eason, "The Appalachian Trail"
5. Russell Edson, "Dinner Time": http://fictiondaze.blogspot.com/2004/06/dinner-time.html
6. Rod Kessler, "How to Touch a Bleeding Dog"
7. Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl": http://cristianaziraldo.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Girl-Jamaica-Kincaid.pdf
8. Larry Fondation, "Deportation at Breakfast"
9. Carolyn Forche, "The Colonel"
10. Ellen Hunnicutt, "Blackberries"
11. & 12. Michael Oppenheimer, "The Paring Knife" and Jerome Stern, "Morning News" (scroll down)
