False blood / Will Self -- Your birthday has come and gone / Paul Auster -- Poem / D.A. Powell -- Brass / Joy Williams -- The starveling / Don DeLillo -- The mission / Tom Bamforth -- She murdered mortal he / Sarah Hall -- A garden of illuminating existence / Kanitta Meechubot -- Deng's dogs / Santiago Roncagliolo -- The infamous Bengal Ming / Rajesh Parameswaran -- The ground floor / Daniel Alarcón -- Insatiable / Mark Doty -- The Colonel's son / Roberto Bolaño -- The dune / Stephen King -- Diem perdidi / Julie Otsuka