Foreword / Neil Gaiman
Introduction / Catherine Burns
The eternal music of the spheres
The moon and stars talks / Tara Clancy
Unusual normality / Ishmael Beah
The quest for Chad / Arthur Bradford
The house of mourning / Kate Braestrup
The girl from Beckenham / Suzi Ronson
God, death, and Francis Crick / Christof Koch
Things I've seen
Fog of disbelief / Carl Pillitteri
The two times I met Laurence Fishburne / Chenjerai Kumanyika
It matters a great deal / Kevin McGeehan
A tale of two dinners / Bliss Broyard ; Untitled / Louis C.K.
Walking with RJ / Stephanie Peirolo
Keeping the lid on. Go the %&# to sleep / Adam Mansbach
Panic on the road to Jericho / Nadia Bolz-Weber
Jenny / Samuel James
Déjà vu (again) / Cole Kazdin
Call me Charlie / Josh Bond
Modern family / Sara Barron
R2, where are you? / Tig Notaro
Grace rushes in
The shower / Tomi Reichental
Cut / Josh Broder
A phone call / Auburn Sandstrom
Who can you trust? / Mary-Claire King
A new home / Dori Samadzai Bonner
Greener grass / Jane Green
As if I was not there / Peter Pringle
Like a man does
Stumbling in the dark / John Turturro
Coming of age in a mausoleum / George Dawes Green
Downstairs neighbors / Shannon Cason
Undercover in North Korea with its future leaders / Suki Kim
My grandfather's shoes / Christian Garland
Leaping forward / Cybele Abbett
To face the fear
Prom / Hasan Minhaj
But also bring cheese / Kate Tellers
Tired, from New York / Jessi Klein
An impossible choice / Sasha Chanoff
Then you will know! / Moshe Schulman
The price of freedom / Noreen Riols
By every claim of love
Summer camp / Meg Wolitzer
The weight of a ring / Amy Biancolli
Light and hope / Bethany van Delft
Kidneys and commitments / Gil Reyes
On approach to Pluto / Cathy Olkin
Forgiveness / Hector Black
California gothic / Taylor Negron.