Sky Boys by Steve Trumpeter
Thank God for Facebook! by Timothy Moore
Moving on at the Hipster Gym by Tovah Burstein
The Gentle Grift by Tim Chapman
Teen Jeopardy by Jessie Morrison
Editor’s picks:
Red Velvet by Chris L. Terry
The Fall and Rise of ‘The Worst Commercial Ever Made’ by Brian Costello
The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Morrison
Customs by Eldad Malamuth
The Specialist by Marco Buscaglia
Jerry Darn Nation by John Counts
Hymie and Ruth by Daniel Stolar
Nick the Prick
by Benjamin Kumming
I Think the Company I’m Temping for May Be Masterminding a Plot for Global Domination
by Stephen Markley
Between Here & There
by Natalie Edwards
Dear Life
by Will Fletcher
Cruising
by Robert Cass
12.25.08
Dual Citizenship by Latoya Wolfe
Selfish, Selfish, Selfish by Ben Greenman
The Highest Goodness Is Like Water by Rosaleen Bertolino
The Most Dangerous Beard in Town by James Kennedy
The Strong by Jona Meyer
12.20.07
Disappear by Eduardo Cruz Eusebio
If You Should Have Any Need at All by Keir Graff

Lolita Is Gone by Jona Whipple
Song for Dana Plato by Whet Moser
Stopping By by Heidi Bell
12.28.06
Everything in the Right Place by Sigers Steele
Ha Ha’s Last Laugh by Susan DeGrane
Michael Estrada, World’s Greatest Internet Author by Tim Hall
The Courage of My Companions by Keir Graff
Jane by Andrea Uptmor
12.22.05
Arachibutyrophobia by Hillary Frank
Big Black Monster by Zak Mucha
Double Fault by Keir Graff
How He Leaves by Sigers Steele

Lasagna by J.R. Jones
Paint It Beige by Mae Governale
Sam and Bessie by Tony Adler
12.30.04
A Spinet Is a Two-Man Piece by Jack Clark
Churn by Sigers Steele
Donkey Pose by Susannah Joy Felts
Leisure Activities by A.B. Drea
McDono’s by Carla McCarty
One Valve Opens by Jonathan Messinger
The Lam of Hal Hamburger by James Kennedy
White Dirt by Zak Mucha
12.25.03
A Drive in March by Aaron Emmel

Affection by Sarah Broden Wareck
Divinity School by Sigers Steele
How to Make Hot-Water Cornbread by Latoya Wolfe
Sunday Drive by Phil Anderson
The Elusive Blue Pepper by Michael Alan
The Origins of My Curious Condition by Garret Gaston
Unbreakable by Tim Foley
12.26.2002
47th Street Black by Bayo Ojikutu
Gymkhana by Monica Drake
How He Survives by A.D. Nauman
Lust Voltage, Our Religion by Randall Osborne

Maurinette Meede, or the Joy of the Oppressor by Ann Sterzinger
Scumsquat Farewell by Tim Hall
Seeing Aquamarine by Christina Martinez
The American Painter Bridget Callaghan by Samantha Peale
Tomatoes Are Fruit by Penelope Memoli
12.27.2001
Baldachins by Ann Sterzinger
Beauty Secrets by Jason Hammel
I’m Not a Puker by Nicole Chakalis
Love’s Tracks by Slobodanka Lakic
Simone’s Got Blue Eyes by Jay Kirk
Something Shiny by Elizabeth Crane
Stratocaster by Mike Newirth
Sugar Water by Greg Downs

The Grass Carp by Susan DeGrane
The Last Night of Calderon by Adam Langer
They Always Call When You’re Not Home by Peggy Shinner
Turtle Stories by Anne Elizabeth Moore
Yo Mama by Rose Spinelli
12.28.00
Credit and Agency by Zoe Zolbrod
Dirtbags by Rennie Sparks
Girls’ Weekend by Steven Simoncic
Hole by Gina Frangello
Love by S.L. Wisenberg
Moving Day by Philip Montoro
Pit Face by Susan DeGrane
Poet Farmers by John Warner

Qi by Charles Dickinson
Rattled by the Rush by Camden Joy
The Boy in the Garden by Lee Martin
The Merchant of Disaster Goes to the Zoo by Jane S. Smith
The Winter Casino by James McManus
To Clothe the Naked by Paul Pekin
Waiter Dreams by Nicole Ropp
West Side Lullaby by Jack Clark