Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors, readers, and supporters of the following publications in which some of these stories have appeared, sometimes in slightly different versions:
Denver Quarterly: “The Glass Girl,” reprinted in PP/FF: An Anthology;
Fugue: “Chains”;
Lake Effect: “Paints and Papers”;
The Literary Review: “Locked Doors”;
Mississippi Review: “Dummy”;
North American Review: “Warnings”;
The Seattle Review: “Shrike”;
Tarpaulin Sky: “Allison’s Idea”;
The Tusculum Review: “Vision of Mirrors”;
Vox: “Murder on the Pasture”;
Yalobusha Review: “Call Me Linda”.
Also, thanks to the Christopher Isherwood Foundation for granting me a fellowship and to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Thanks to Peter Conners and everyone at BOA for their kindness, hard work, and impressive knowledge of the literary arts. Thanks to Ted Pelton of Starcherone Books for encouragement. Finally, thanks to friends and family for being there for me over the years—a special “shout out” to Mom, Dad, Lori, Megan, and Daniel, as well as Anna Shapiro and the Shapiro family.