What Gets Into Us

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What Gets Into Us This page intentionally left blank What Gets IntoUs Stories by Moira Crone University Press of Mississippi Jackson www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. The followingworks have appeared in journals and anthologies: "The Ice Garden" in Triquarterly, Spring/Summer 2006. "White Skyin May"in a different form, as "Aunt Cs Arm," in Louisiana Literature , Winter 1999. "Mr. Sender" in image, Winter 2003-2004, no. 41, and in New Storiesfrom the South: The Year's Best, 2005,Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. "Salvage" in Shenandoah, Fall 2004,v°l- 54>no - 2 - "Where What Gets Into People Comes From" in Ploughshares, Fall 2000, nos. 2Ó/2&3, and in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2001,Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. "It" in Natural Bridge, Spring 2006. "The Ice Garden" was the 2004 winner of the William Faulkner/William Wisdom Creative Writing Prize for Novella, sponsored by the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society of New Orleans. Copyright © 2006 byMoira Crone All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First Edition 2006 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Crone, Moira,1952What gets into us / MoiraCrone.— ist ed. p. cm. ISBN 1-57806-772-3 (alk.paper) i. North Carolina—Social life and customs—Fiction. 2. City and town life— Fiction. I. Tide. PS3553.R5393W47 2006 8i3'.54—dc22 2005025715 British LibraryCataloging-in-Publication Dataavailable For Kezia and Anya, my inspiration and my joy My thanks to those who have been there, close at hand: Rodger Kamenetz, Marc Bregman. And to Joe DeSalvo and Rosemary James, the royalty of New Orleans readers. I am also grateful to Jon Gregg, Louise Von Weise, and Gary Clark of the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, for their generosity in hosting me several summers while I worked on these stories . And to the English Department and Louisiana State University for their support while I completed this book. I am indebted, as well, to the wonderful editors and writers who have given me support by selecting my work and encouraging this book along the way:Gish Jen, Susan Firestone Hahn, Patty Friedmann , Greg Wolf, R. T. Smith, Kenneth Harrison, Janette Turner Hospital, Kathy Poires, and Shannon Ravenel. I am also thankful to Seetha Srinivasan, at the University Press of Mississippi, an amazing presence in southern letters and publishing , and to Walter Biggins, who has been my guide. ...