- John Updike: "Forgive me!" "What for?" "Never mind."
- Irvine Welsh: Eyeballed me, killed him. Slight exaggeration.
- Norman Maller: Satan -- Jehovah -- fifteen rounds. A draw.
- Andrea Siegel: "Welcome to Moeshe Christiansen's Bar Mitzvah."
- Rick Moody: grass, cow, calf, milk, France
- AM Homes: He remembered something that never happened.
- Robert Olen Butler: Saigon hotel. Decades later. He weeps.
- Tobias Wolff: She gave. He took. He forgot.
- Courtney Eldridge: -- I love you... -- Love ya back.
- Memoir, Jerry Stahl: You are not shit. You are!
- Jamie O'Neill: All her life: half a house.
- Edward Albee: Poison; meditation; skiing; ants -- nothing worked.
- Michael Cunningham: My nemesis is dead. Now what?
- David Lodge: I saw. I conquered. Couldn't come.
- Brian Bouldrey: "Cyanide? Bitter almonds." He knew. How?
- Mary Gateskill: Father died. Mother triumphed. I left.
- Pickney Benedict: "You? Her? No dice, fat boy."
- Bruce Benderson: Mother's Day came, doubling Oedipus' pleasure.
- JT LeRoy: Tossed remorselessly, whiffle balls sure hurt.
- Rebecca Miller: As she fell, her mind wandered.
- Ben Greenman: It's negative. Say hi to mom.
- "A Short History of Academia," by Sue Grafton: Horny professor. Failing coed. No tenure.
- AG Pasquella: Shiva destroys Earth: "Well, that's that."
- Nicholas Weinstock: Havana's no place for hockey, coach.
- As published in the Fall 2004 issue of BlackBook Magazine.