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ix A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S The following stories appeared, often in slightly different form, in the following magazines: “Man in Gorilla Suit by Moonlight” in The Gettysburg Review; “Tangle Apple Flesh” in Black Warrior Review; “Wherever You Are, You’re Already Gone” in The Alaska Quarterly Review; “Jenny, With Bulldog” in The Idaho Review; “Chapter Five” in Fiction (as “The Canal”); “The Real Mother’s Song” in Other Voices; “The Corrupter of Words” in Crab Orchard Review; “The Age of Being” in New Orleans Review. In addition, the author would be a total churl if he didn’t acknowledge the supergood readers he’s encountered over the years, many of whom helped shape this book, including June and Paul and Jennifer Schmidt,Terry Hummer, Sandy Huss, Allen Wier, Don Hendrie, Jr., Tim Parrish, Valerie Vogrin, Dana Collins, Katie Riegel, Jack Heffron, Tom Chiarella, Carolyn Alessio, Jon Tribble, Allison Joseph, Chris Chambers, Mitch Wieland, Jeanne Leiby, Mark Drew, Jeff Mock, Peter Stitt, Rob Trucks, Isaiah Smithson, Jeffrey Skoblow, Allison Funk, Karen DeVinney and especially Nikki Schmidt. ...

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