Allegiance and Betrayal: Stories

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Allegiance and Betrayal Allegiance and Betrayal stories P E T E R M A K U C K Syr acuse University Press Copyright © 2013 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2013 13 14 15 16 17 18 6 5 4 3 2 1 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, dialogues, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our website at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-1015-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Makuck, Peter, 1940– [Short stories. Selections] Allegiance and betrayal : stories / Peter Makuck. — First edition. pages cm ISBN 978-0-8156-1015-1 (paper : alk. paper) I. Title. PS3563.A396A79 2013 813'.54—dc23 2013001076 Manufactured in the United States of America With love and deep gratitude to Phyllis, my first reader and much more PE T E R M A K UC K grew up in New England and graduated from St. Francis College in Maine, where he studied French and English. After teaching French for several years, he returned to graduate school for a doctorate in American literature at Kent State University and was later a Fulbright lecturer in France at l’Université de Savoie. His Long Lens: New & Selected Poems was released in 2010 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He has published two collections of short stories, Breaking and Entering (1981) and Costly Habits (2002); the latter was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and listed by The Dictionary of Literary Biography in the “Top Ten Story Collections of 2002.” Founder and editor of Tar River Poetry from 1978 to 2006, he is distinguished professor emeritus at East Carolina University. His poems and stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in the Georgia Review, the Hudson Review, Poetry, the Sewanee Review, the Nation, the Gettysburg Review, and other literary journals. ...