The Old Priest

Acknowledgments

171 T h e B u r n i e - C a n Acknowledgments For all their encouragement and support, many thanks to my mother and brother, Collene and Jim Moxford, Brian and Linda Cruse, Chris Walsh, Bill Marx, Sharon Portnoff, Michael Degener, Michael Prince, Maria Zlateva, Kim Shuckra-Gomez, James Pasto, Mary McGowan, Salvatore Sciabona, Keith Botsford , Janet Tracy Landman, Mike Remshard, and especially to my teachers, Leslie Epstein and Fr. Anthony I. McHale, S. J. The following stories have been previously published, and changes have been made to them since their initial publication : “The Old Priest,” 2013 Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses, edited by Bill Henderson (Wainscott: Pushcart , 2013); “The Old Priest,” Republic of Letters 22 (Spring 2011), http://mag.trolbooks.com/2011/04/the-old-priest/; “The City of Gold” as “Pueblo,” 236 (Fall 2005), http://wwwbu .edu/writing/236 (236 is the e-magazine of Boston University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program); “Snow behind the Door,” Another Chicago Magazine, Spring 2003; “The Unexamined Life,” CutBank, Fall 2001; “Jack Frost,” Sou’wester (Summer 1998); and “Upstairs Room,” New Millennium Writings (Summer 1998). 171 172 A n t h o n y Wa l l a c e ...