Here is the full-text story “Housekeeping Observations” by Lydia Davis from the first issue of Little Star (Davis’s work from the issue will be included in the 2012 Pushcart Prize anthology):

Under all this dirt, the floor is really very clean.

And here is the complete poem “The Terms” by Alissa Quart from the final issue of Open City (issue 30):

Middle-aged men make good bad mothers.

People are just showtunes looking for a show.

The word “classic” accompanies the word “commercial” after 1943.

Writers are still worrying about the word not meeting the thing it describes.
Who else cares.

Even yoked beasts have private thoughts.

All thoughts are interruptions.