Alix Spiegel tells the story of her friend Jayna, who made a Faustian bargain at 11 years old.

Fiction writer George Saunders reads his story "Offloading for Mrs Schwartz," from his book CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. It's the story of someone who can't get over the death of his ex-wife.

Scott Carrier's wife and mother-in-law insist that Scott's three-and-a-half year old daughter enroll in swimming classes.

Audio artist Jay Allison and writer Dan Robb present an audio montage on the moment Robb's parents divorced.

Sandra's father decides, at age 70, to take a Chinese wife.

The story of a woman whose husband lies to her compulsively. At some point, she starts to ask him questions that'll make him lie to her, just to amuse herself.

When Susan Bergman wrote a book about her family's experience, other gay men tried to explain her father's actions to her.