Creating the life of theater / Kristen Gandrow -- A destination for playwrights / Polly K. Carl -- The importance of golf from The fattest man in the world lives upstairs ; Saving you from Untold crimes of insomniacs / Janet Allard -- Excerpt from Voices underwater / Abi Basch -- Home is what the hat is / Alan M. Berks -- Reed's site from The Donner gold / Anne Bertram -- Excerpt from Definition / Janea Rae Boyles -- Excerpt from Ritual / Richard Broadhurst -- Freedom stakes from Pure confidence / Carlyle Brown -- Excerpt from Little vines / Cory Busse -- Excerpt from We are not these hands ; Hold this / Sheila Callaghan -- Excerpt from Findings uncertain : a play about adoption in three pieces / Beth Cleary -- Excerpt from Heckler / Bill Corbett -- Games / Jeannine Coulombe -- Fingerprinting a corpse / Steven J. Cribari -- Excerpt from The 13 hallucinations of Julio Rivera / Stephen R. Culp -- Excerpt from Perpetua / Vincent Delaney -- Trustworthy from Training my hands for war ; A great-grandmother from Days of saints / Matt Di Cintio -- How I turned into a dog from StudPuppy / Matthew Everett -- The men who loved horse trailers / Diane Glancy -- Excerpt from Day of the kings / Daphne Greaves -- Excerpt from Burial at sea / Irving A. Greenfield -- Dad and Joey and Ma and me from Memories of childhood / June Guralnik -- Excerpt from Queen Darlene, an uncertain valentine / Jordan Harrison -- The murderer / Jeffrey Hatcher -- Excerpt from What remains / Ryan Hill -- Excerpt from Phoenix / Cory Hinkle -- Excerpt from Independency ; Excerpt from A chat with him and her / Mark Steven Jensen -- Lightning ; MD carnival / Kevin Kling -- Excerpt from Room 214 ; Excerpt from Valerie shoots Andy / Carson Kreitzer -- Kim's Arrival / Katio Leo -- Excerpt from American sublime / Patricia Lynch -- Excerpt from Mad love / Jennifer Maisel -- Not everybody has a General Lee from Hazard County ; It's subversive from Hazard County / Allison Moore -- The Reverend Graham explains his cracker / Kira Obolensky -- Excerpt from Saturn / Dominic Orlando -- Excerpt from Do you know a secret? / Daniel Pinkerton -- Excerpt from Three seasons / Mark Rosenwinkel -- Excerpt from Sirius rising ; Excerpt from Thrown by angels / Gwendolyn Schwinke -- Excerpt from Burning Jenny ; Excerpt from Circus buff / Buffy Sedlachek -- My Brother Sandro ; Waltz / Rosanna Staffa -- Untitled / Alan Staples -- Excerpt from Magnificent waste / Caridad Svich -- The retreating world / Naomi Wallace -- The perfect dive / Mic Weinblatt -- Things to lose / Randy Wyatt.