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I Blame Dennis Hopper
By Illeana Douglas
(Actress, Films: To Die For, Ghost World, New York Stories, Goodfellas, Grace of My Heart, Factory Girl;TV: The Drew Carey Show, Six Feet Under, Shark; Writer: Essays included in Fired! Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized & Dismissed [Simon and Schuster, 2006].)

A Beast in the Night
by Tom Bartlett
(Writing has appeared in Slate, Muse, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Opium Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, and the New Yorker)

My Father's Penis
by Rich Caplan
(Partner in a talent agency, this is the author's first published piece.)

An Open Letter to the Lunesta Butterfly
By Dena Taylor
(Written for Austin Woman magazine; Writes and performs with Austin's Gag Reflex sketch comedy group.)

Forever
by Cathy Ladman
(TV appearances: The Tonight Show 9 times, her own HBO comedy special, Everybody Loves Raymond, Curb Your Enthusiasm; Film: The Aristocrats, White Oleander; TV writer/producer, The Wayne Brady Show, Roseanne.)

The Man Who Could be Hung
by Hayward Hawks Marcus
(Award-winning author of novel, Stardust Drive-In; Screenwriter; Champion dirty limerick writer.)

44th INSTALLMENT : 3/16/07

Beauty Hurts
By Melanie Hutsell
(Actress with Chicago's Second City, was a regular on Saturday Night Live; Acclaimed solo show Party Mom.)

Escort
by Lisa Buscani
(National Poetry Slam Champion; Author of Jangle; Executive director of The Poetry Center of Chicago.)

Star Treatment
by Aaron Hartzler
(Actor, writer, several one-man shows including the Off-Off Broadway hit Spanked!)

Power Outage
By James Braly
(NPR commentator; Featured performer on The Moth National Story Tour; Author, Life in a Marital Institution [Algonquin, 2008].)

Postcards of What was Missing
by Leigh Ann Henion
(Award-winning writer and photographer, her work has appeared in Smithsonian, The Sun, Hemispheres, The Christian Science Monitor, etc.)

My Prom Date's Name was Bubba
by Romie Angelich
(Producer and host of the monthly series "Border’s Published, Produced, Or On Their Way"; reads her essays at Comedy Central Theater, HBO Workspace, etc.)