New Stories from the Midwest

Acknowledgments

vii Acknowledgments “Dinosaurs” by Janice Deal. First published in the Sun, no. 408 (December 2009). Copyright © 2009 by Janice Deal. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Being and Nothingness (Not a Real Title)” by Gregory Blake Smith. First published in New England Review, vol. 30, no. 3 (2009). Copyright © 2009 by Gregory Blake Smith. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Bringing Belle Home” by Bonnie Jo Campbell. Reprinted from American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell. Copyright © 2009 Wayne State University Press, with permission of Wayne State University Press. “Bringing Belle Home” also appeared in Another Chicago Magazine (Fall 2010). “The Drowned Girl” by Micah Riecker. First published in the Cincinnati Review, vol. 6, no. 2 (Winter 2010). Copyright © 2009 by Micah Riecker. Reprinted by permission of the author. “The Way to Mercy” by Beth Mayer. First published in the Sun, no. 403 (July 2009). Copyright © 2009 by Beth Mayer. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Rubber Boy” by David Allan Cates. First published in Glimmer Train Stories, no. 70 (Spring 2010). Copyright © 2009 by David Allan Cates. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Pure Superior” by Chris Leslie-Hynan. First published in Harvard Review, no. 37 (2009). Copyright © 2009 by Chris Leslie-Hynan. Reprinted by permission of the author. viii ■ Acknowledgments “Captivity” by Abby Geni. First published in Glimmer Train Stories, no. 73 (Winter 2010). Copyright © 2009 by Abby Geni. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Tell Yourself” by Bonnie Jo Campbell. First published in the Kenyon Review Online, vol. 2, no. 4 (Fall 2009). Copyright © 2009 by Bonnie Jo Campbell. Reprinted by permission of the author. “The Houseguest” by Kim Brooks. First published in Glimmer Train Stories, no. 72 (Fall 2009). Copyright © 2009 by Kim Brooks. Reprinted by permission of the author. “The Guinea Pig” by Clancy Martin, copyright © 2009 by Clancy Martin. First published in New Letters, vol. 76, no. 1 (200). Reprinted with the permission of New Letters and the Curators of the University of Missouri–Kansas City. “Korean Wedding” by Hubert Ahn. First published in Glimmer Train Stories, no. 71 (Summer 2009). Copyright © 2009 by Hubert Ahn. Reprinted by permission of the author. “The Tree” by Benjamin Percy. First published in Ecotone, vol. 5, no. 1 (Fall 2009). Copyright © 2009 by Benjamin Percy. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Sister Light-of-Love Love Dove” by Judith Cooper. First published in Shenandoah (Winter 2009). Reprinted by permission of the editor and the author. “The Threshold” by Rosellen Brown. First published in Northwest Review, vol. 47, no. 3, (December 2009). Copyright © 2009 by Rosellen Brown. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Tenochtitlan” by James Magruder. First published in Subtropics, no. 7 (Winter/ Spring 2009). Copyright © 2009 by James Magruder. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Do You Like This Room?” by Richard Burgin. First published in TriQuarterly (November 2009). Copyright © 2009 by Richard Burgin. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Blood and Milk” by Carol Howell. First published in North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 75 (Summer 2008). Copyright © 2008 by Carol Howell. Reprinted by permission of the author. Acknowledgments ■ ix “Man of Steel” by Bryan Furuness. First published in Ninth Letter (Spring/Summer 2009). Copyright © 2009 by Bryan Furuness. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Bedtime Stories for the Middle-Aged” by Christie Hodgen. First published in the Cincinnati Review, vol. 6, no. 1 (Summer 2009). Copyright © 2009 by Christie Hodgen . Reprinted by permission of the author. ...