Living with Snakes

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Living with Snakes Winner of THE FLANNERY O'CONNOR AWARD FOR SHORT FICTION Living with Snakes Stories by Daniel Curley The University of Georgia Press Athens Paperback edition published in 2013 by The Universityof Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org© 1985by Daniel Curley All rights reserved Set in Linotroii 202 Baskerville Printed digitally in the United States ofAmerica The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this book asfollows: Curley, Daniel. Living with snakes : stories / byDaniel Curley. 134 p. ; 23 cm. Contents: Trinity—The inlet—The other two—[etc." I. Title. PS 3553-u6 5L 5 !98 5 8l 3'-54 84-22773 ISBN Ö-82O3-O7Ö7-X (alk. paper) Paperback iSBN-13: 978-0-8203-4441-6 ISBN-IO: 0-8203-4441-9 "The First Baseman" originally appeared in. the Cimarrón Review and is reprinted here with the permission of the Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University,holders of the copyright. ISBN for digital edition: 978-0-8203-4494-2 TO AUDREY Acknowledgments The author and the publisher gratefully acknowledge the magazines in which stories in this volume first appeared. New Letters: "Trinity" and "The Contrivance" New England Review: "Wild Geese" Story Quarterly: "Reflections in the Ice" and "Living with Snakes" Cimarrón Review: "The First Baseman" Chicago: "The Inlet" Quarterly West: "Billy Will's Song" Mid-American Review: "Visiting the Dead" Another Chicago Magazine: "The Other Two" ...