The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories

Title Page, Further Reading, Copyright, Dedication

The Story Until Now Also by Kit Reed novels Mother Isn’t Dead She’s Only Sleeping At War As Children The Better Part Armed Camps Cry of the Daughter Tiger Rag Captain Grownup The Ballad of T. Rantula Magic Time Fort Privilege Catholic Girls Little Sisters of the Apocalypse J. Eden @expectations Thinner Than Thou Bronze The Baby Merchant Enclave short stories Mr. Da V. and Other Stories The Killer Mice Other Stories and The Attack of the Giant Baby The Revenge of the Senior Citizens *Plus* Thief of Lives Weird Women, Wired Women Seven for the Apocalypse Dogs of Truth What Wolves Know The Story Until Now A Great Big Book of Stories Kit Reed Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 Wesleyan University Press Middletown CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress© 2013 Kit Reed All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Katherine B. Kimball Typeset in Minion by A. W. Bennett, Inc. Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reed, Kit. The story until now: a great big book of stories / Kit Reed.   p. cm. isbn 978-0-8195-7349-0 (cloth: alk. paper)—isbn 978-0-81957350 -6 (ebook) 1. Science fiction, American. I. Title. ps3568.e367s76 2013 813.54—dc23 2012026804 5 4 3 2 1 For Joe, who’s been in this with me from the beginning with much, much love 8 8 8 8 8 ...