Lost and Found in Las Vegas

The bite-size contributions (few are more than a few pages long), span the gamut of genres, including essay, reportage, and fiction. This year they are loosely based around the concept of a "lost & found" box and the random, disparate items that it might hold. It's the perfect metaphor for Las Vegas, a metropolis with such singular energies generated by the juxtaposition--and sometimes collision--of so many diverse and frenetic elements. In no other city is it so easy to get lost, nor so vital to be found.