Ghost Traps

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

Ghost Traps Winner of The F/onnery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ghost Traps Stories by Robert H. Abel The University of Georgia Press Athens and London Paperback edition published in 2013 by The University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org©1991 by Robert H.Abel All rights reserved Set in Linotron 10 on 14 Trump Medieval Printed digitally in the United States of America The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this book as follows: Abel, Robert H., date. Ghost traps : stories / by Robert H. Abel. 152 p.; 23 cm. Contents: Appetizer—Agood investment— Commander of the buffaloes—My Kline syndrome— Lawless in New York—Newline—The connoisseur— One up—Buckand Tracey go walking—The deaths of strangers—A sweepstakes story—Ghost traps. ISBN 0-8203-1252-5 (alk.paper) 1. United States—Sociallife and customs— 20th century—Fiction. I. Title. PS3551.B337G47 1991 813'.54—dc20 90-34243 Paperback ISBN-13:978-0-8203-4491-1 ISBN-10: 0-8203-4491-5 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available ISBN for digital edition: 978-0-8203-4574-1 ToJoyce This page intentionally left blank ...