| First Line | Story Title | Collection |
| '''And yet I did not fall in love with her until she had related the story of the unbelievably horrifying incident in which she was brutally accosted and held captive and very near | |
| 'I am a woman who appeared in public on 'Late Night with David Letterman' on March 22, 1989.' | |
| 'It's 1976.' | |
| 'Then just as I was being released in late 1996 Mother won a small product liability settlement and used the money to promptly go get cosmetic surgery on the crow's feet around her | |
| 'There was once a mother who had a very hard time indeed, emotionally, inside.' | |
| 'My whole life I've been a fraud.' | |
| 'Gimlet dreamed that if she did not see a concert last night she would become a type of liquid, therefore my friends Mr. Wonderful, Big, Gimlet, and I went to see Keith Jarrett pla | |
| 'The Daddy was around the side of the house hanging a door for the tenant when he heard the child's screams and the Mommy's voice gone high between them.' | |
| 'Here is a weird one for you.' | |