A HalfMan Dreaming

Title Page, Copyright, Acknowledgments, Dedication

A HalfMan Dreaming “This page intentionally left blank”. A HalfMan Dreaming by David Matlin Red Hen Press | Pasadena, CA A HalfMan Dreaming Copyright © 2012 by David Matlin All rights reserved No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner. Book design by Mark E. Cull Book layout by David Rose ISBN: 978-1-59709-070-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Matlin, David. A HalfMan dreaming / by David Matlin.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-59709-070-4 I. Title. PS3563.A8367H35 2012 813’.54—dc23 2011048808 The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and the James Irvine Foundation partially support Red Hen Press. First Edition Published by Red Hen Press www.redhen.org Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following anthologies and magazines for publishing excerpts of this book: Apex of the M, English Studies Forum (Ball State University), Fiction International, The First Ten Years (Bright Hill Press), Flash Point, Golden Handcuffs Review, Notre Dame Review, Out of the Catskills and Just Beyond (Bright Hill Press), The Second Word Thursdays Anthology (Bright Hill Press), Witness. “This page intentionally left blank”. For Clay “This page intentionally left blank”. ...