30 seconds of darkness / Harry Stephen Keeler -- Brothers / Sherwood Anderson -- Kaddish for the kid / Max Allan Collins -- The man who went to Chicago (excerpt) / Richard Wright -- He sung and he missed / Nelson Algren -- I'll cut your throat again, Kathleen / Fredric Brown -- The prince of salt (excerpt) / Patricia Highsmith -- The starving dogs of Little Croatia / Barry Gifford -- Blue note / Stuart M. Kaminsky -- The whole world is watching / Libby Fischer Hellmann -- Skin Deep / Sara Paretsky -- Death and the point spread / Percy Spulark Parker -- One holy night / Sandra Cisneros -- The thirtieth amendment / Hugh Holton -- We didn't / Stuart Dybek.