"from Two serious ladies -- Jane Bowles; Minutes of glory -- Ngugu wa Thiong'o; The Jewish hunter -- Lorrie Moore; Lillies -- Joan London; The river -- Flannery O'Connor; A Gentleman's agreement -- Elizabeth Jolly; The building site -- Marguerite Duras; Her laughter like a song of freeedom -- Sue Woolfe; from The slap -- Roger McDonald; Avelino Arredondo -- Jorge Luis Borges; The last cigar at the grey Arab -- Gyula Krudy; A wife's letter -- Rabindranath Tagore; Crucible -- Jiang Yun; Portrait of Alice -- Rosemary Creswell; Bachmann -- Vladimir Nabokov; Ash -- Mandy Sayer; The adventure of a clerk -- Italo Calvino; Sweet nothing -- Peter Wells; The trail of your blood in the snow -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez