A MARIAN WOOD BOOK
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Copyright © 1998 by Karen Joy Fowler
Preface copyright © 2015 by Karen Joy Fowler
Originally published by Henry Holt and Company Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fowler, Karen Joy.
[Short stories. Selections]
Black glass : short fictions / by Karen Joy Fowler.
p. cm.
“A Marian Wood Book.”
ISBN 978-0-698-40548-6
I. Title.
PS3556.O844A6 2015 2015007425
813'.54—dc23
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.