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A child's book of sickness and death / Chris Adrian -- Hadrian's wall / Jim Shepard -- The woman who sold communion / Kate Braverman -- Civilization / Ryan Boudinot -- The death of Mustango Salvaje / Jessica Anthony -- Executors of important energies / Wells Tower -- Roden disaster in Xinjiang / Joshuah Bearman -- How it floods / Pia Z. Ehrhardt -- The animal kingdom / Jessica Lamb-Shapiro -- The doubtfulness of water / T.C. Boyle -- Convergence : thumb in eye / Lawrence Weschler -- That which I am / Silvia DiPierdomenico -- What it ain't / Susan Straight -- Good monks / Malinda McCollum -- Three pieces of Severance / Robert Olen Butler -- Deep Wells, USA / Chris Bachelder -- Convergence : torso as face / Lawrence Weschler -- Pigs in space / Claire Light -- The people / Lindsay Carleton -- Soul of a whore : act III / Denis Johnson.