Not Istanbul / Pam Houston -- Palm Springs / Mary Jo Eustace -- Hail the status quo / Susan Montez -- Iowa was never like this / Jane Smiley -- Once upon a time it took three / Binnie Kirshenbaum -- The mistress / Dani Shapiro -- The loves of his life / Katharine Weber -- Invite the bitch to dinner / Ellen Sussman -- Cassandra / Caroline Leavitt -- The uterine blues : why some women can't stop fucking over their sisters / Connie May Fowler -- Ruby / Gayle Brandeis -- In praise of married men / Susan Cheever -- Sheba / Sherry Glaser -- The other other woman / Nancy Weber -- Phantom wife / Victoria Zackheim -- The man with the big hands / Maxinne Rhea Leighton -- A hand on the neck / Laurie Stone -- Seized / Kathleen Archambeau -- My life as a muse / Aviva Layton -- The lost city of love / Diana Abu-Jaber -- Running the smalls through / Lynn Freed.