- Aimee Bender, "On a Saturday Afternoon"
- Dave Eggers, "What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle, and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust"
- Aleksander Hemon, "Love and Obstacles"
- Haruki Murakami, "The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day" and "The Year of Spaghetti"
- Annie Proulx, "Brokeback Mountain"