Earlier versions of the following stories were published previously:

“Not Being Shy” in Five Dials

“The Lesson” in Found Press Quarterly

“Baby Can’t You See?” in THIS Magazine

“A Little Story About Love” in Eat It: Sex, Food & Women’s Writing by Feathertale Press and in the online magazine Don’t Talk to Me About Love

“Real Life” in Room Magazine

“Gazebo Times” in Event Magazine

“Dumpling Night” and “Empathize or Die” in Taddle Creek

“Things Not to Do” in PRISM Magazine (this story was inspired a piece I wrote for The Litter I See Project, created by Carin Makuz in support of literacy and Frontier College)

“He Will Speak to Us” in Maisonneuve

“Everyone Here Is So Friendly” in The Puritan and in iLit — Reality Imagined: Stories of Identity and Change by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd.

“At Kimberly’s Party” and “Puppybird” in The New Quarterly

“Prize” in Hazlitt

“Flamingo” in The 2015 Short Story Advent Calendar