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ix Acknowledgments Some of the stories in this collection have appeared elsewhere, in slightly different form: “Jumping Man” in Best Life Magazine; “Lucky Gorseman” in Colorado Review; “Water” at GivalPress. com; “Dirt Men” in New Letters; and “Irish Girl” in DoubleTake Magazine, the 2003 O. Henry Prize Stories, and Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules. Grateful acknowledgment is made to these publications and their editors. In addition, I wish to thank Marianne Merola and Joanne Brownstein for their hard work on behalf of these stories, Janet Peery who chose this collection for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, Karen DeVinney and Paula Oates who brought it so deftly to press, and The MacDowell Colony for two very good months in the fall of 2008. ...