| Reviews | |
| Wendy Camerieri / The Cycle of Overexposure: A Review of Sybil Exposed | 8 |
| Christina Durborow / Mad for the Mid-Twentieth Century: Revolutionary Road 50 Years Later | 11 |
| Nick Ripatrazone / On Mostly Redneck | 13 |
| Fiction | |
| Contest Judge Karen Russell / On “My Catholic Boyfriend” |
16 |
| Contest Winner Josie Sigler / My Catholic Boyfriend |
18 |
| Lydia Davis / The Woman in Red | 36 |
| Jane Birdsall / The Common App | 37 |
| Chaz Reetz-Laiolo / Bird | 46 |
| Rachel Siviski / Little Death | 63 |
| William Reese Hamilton / The Chingwangtao Gambit | 73 |
| Samantha Levy / The End of Free Love | 85 |
| Virignia Konchan / Blackbird | 106 |
| Ryan Meany / Solving | 121 |
| Jeffrey Ihlenfeldt / The Complete and Unabridged History of Guns | 132 |
| James Tate Hill / Ms. Nisker’s Health Class | 150 |
| Josh Weil / Swimming | 171 |
| David Vann / It’s Not Yours | 205 |
| James Robison / Aria | 218 |
| Gary Percespe / Summer: 1972 | 222 |
| Rae Bryant / Good Girl | 235 |
| John Kinsella / Embarassed | 247 |
| Idra Novey / The Specialist | 257 |
| Sarah Gauch / Wall-E | 262 |
| T. C. McCarthy / A-I-P | 282 |
| Karen Malley / Powder Hollow | 296 |
| Larry Rothe / When the Sun is Setting in California | 306 |
| Tyler Sage / Ecotage | 309 |
| Blythe Winslow / Big Love | 333 |
| James Marcus / Animal, Vegetable, Mineral | 344 |
| Richard Burgin / The Reunion | 363 |
| Michael Blumethal / He Had Tried | 382 |
| Essay | |
| T.R. Hummer / In the Palm of the Poet’s Hand | 388 |
| Contributors to StoryQuarterly 45 | 400 |
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