Introduction / Laura Furman, series editor
Your fate hurtles down at you / Jim Shepard
Diary of an interesting year / Helen Simpson
Nightblooming / Kenneth Calhoun
The restoration of the villa where Tíbor Kálmán once lived / Tamas Dobozy
How to leave Hialeah / Jennine Capó Crucet
The junction / David Means
Alamo Plaza / Brad Watson
The black square / Chris Adrian
Nothing of consequence / Jane Delury
The rules are the rules / Adam Foulds
The vanishing American / Leslie Parry
Never come back / Elizabeth Tallent
Something you can't live without / Matthew Neill Null
Writing the PEN/O. Henry prize stories 2011 : the jurors on their favorites / A.M. Holmes, Manuel Muñoz, Christine Schutt.