Heartbreak takes many forms, and the stories in Dumped attack them all: from the head-clearing uplifting dump and the merely annoying dump; to the crushing dump, which leaves you hollow and weepy, and the death knell, when the supposed soul mate takes off, burning rubber down the highway of life and the other person is roadkill.

Edited by B. Delores Max.

Contents:

• The Zagat History of My Last Relationship by Noah Baumbach
• The Spanish Lady by Alice Munro
• Access to the Children by William Trevor
• Willing by Laurie Moore
• Excerpt from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• The Male Gaze by Lucinda Rosenfeld
• Excerpt from This Boy's Life by Tobais Wolff
• UFO in Kushiro by Haruki Murakami
• How to Love a Republican by Steve Almond
• The Fourth State of Matter by Jo Ann Beard
• Under the Radar by Richard Ford
• Excerpt from Herzog by Saul Bellow
• A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker
• Over the Hill by Andre Dubus
• Excerpt from Open House by Elizabeth Berg
• Final Touches by Dan O'Brien
• My Stuff by Roger Hart
• The End of the Relationship by Will Self
• Making Arrangements by Elizabeth Bowen
• Marching Through Delaware by Bruce Jay Friedman
• Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
• The Camping Ground by Dallas Angguish
• Fever by Raymond Carver