Award-winning novelist John Casey has selected seventeen new stories from hundreds of writing programs throughout the United States which represent the best new writers in fiction.

"A Harvest original."

So much the better / by Misha Angrist -- Stalin / by Shanthi Sekaran -- Vinegar / by René L. Todd -- What is visible / by Kimberly Elkins -- Bunnymoon / by Peyton Marshall -- Healer / by Michelle Wildgen -- Five-minute hearts / by Mary Otis -- Nightfloat / by Matthew Love -- Transcription / by Alix Ohlin -- The platform / by Salvatore Scibona -- This is not skin / by Nathan Roberts -- Blue night, Clover Lake / / by Mary Stewart Atwell -- The garden / by Devika Mehra -- Irregularities / by Courtney Jones -- The quickening / by Michelle Hoover -- Michiganders, 1979 / by Brady Johnson -- Dancing lessons / by Liza Ward.