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Matthew Dodge makes a pre-dawn journey down an Indiana beach to find a corpse;a former inmate recalls life in the Supermax prison in Tamms, IL; and members of Teatro Luna, Chicago's all-Latina theater ensemble, continue their series of reflections on the sometimes-disturbing things that turn them on, from their recent show Lunatic(a)s.

And writers from the 2nd Hand, a local literary magazine, contribute a story based on a Prince song, the tale of a woman in love with a man who keeps a lion in his basement, and the adventures of a girl detective who's a little closer to our world than to Nancy Drew's.

Plus, a listener responds to our debate from last week about what other North and South Americans think of the habit U.S. residents have of calling ourselves (and only ourselves) "Americans."