Laura Furman - The O. Henry Prize Stories 2011

“How to Leave Hialeah” first appeared in Epoch . Copyright © 2009 by Jen-nine Capó Crucet. From How to Leave Hialeah , published by the University of Iowa Press, 2009. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Nothing of Consequence” first appeared in Narrative Magazine . Copyright © 2009 by Jane Delury. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Restoration of the Villa Where Tíbor Kálmán Once Lived” first appeared in One Story . Copyright © 2009 by Tamas Dobozy. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Melinda” first appeared in The Kenyon Review . Copyright © 2009 by Judy Doenges. Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency.

“Windeye” first appeared in PEN America . Copyright © 2009 by Brian Evenson. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Rules Are the Rules” first appeared in Granta . Copyright © 2010 by Adam Foulds. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Sunshine” first appeared in Narrative Magazine , Spring 2010. Copyright © 2010 by Lynn Freed. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Junction” first appeared, in slightly different form, in Ecotone . From The Spot by David Means. Copyright © 2010 by David Means. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

“ Pole, Pole ” first appeared in The Kenyon Review . Copyright © 2009 by Susan Minot. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Something You Can’t Live Without” first appeared in the Oxford American . Copyright © 2010 by Matthew Neill Null. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Bed Death” first appeared in The Kenyon Review . From The Bigness of the World: Stories , published by the University of Georgia Press. Copyright © 2009 by Lori Ostlund. Reprinted by permission of the University of Georgia Press.

“The Vanishing American” first appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review , Vol. 85, No. 4, Fall 2009. Copyright © 2009 by Leslie Parry. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Your Fate Hurtles Down at You” first appeared in Electric Literature . Copyright © 2009 by Jim Shepard. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Diary of an Interesting Year” first appeared in The New Yorker . Copyright © 2009 by Helen Simpson. Reprinted by permission of The Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc., on behalf of the author.

“Crossing” first appeared in The Paris Review , Issue 190, Fall 2009. Copyright © 2009 by Mark Slouka. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Never Come Back” first appeared in The Threepenny Review . Copyright © 2010 by Elizabeth Tallent. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Ice” first appeared in The American Scholar . Copyright © 2010 by Lily Tuck. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Alamo Plaza” first appeared in Ecotone . From Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives: Stories by Brad Watson. Copyright © 2010 by Brad Watson. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.