Living Things

Copyright © 2019 by Landon Houle

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.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Book design by Mark E. Cull

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Houle, Landon, 1985– author.

Title: Living things : stories / Landon Houle.

Description: Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2019]

Identifiers: LCCN 2019018063 | ISBN 9781597098397

Subjects: LCSH: South Carolina—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3608.O85544 A6 2019 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019018063

The National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Max Factor Family Foundation, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation, the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, the Kinder Morgan Foundation, the Meta & George Rosenberg Foundation, the Allergan Foundation, the Riordan Foundation, Amazon Literary Partnership, and the Mara W. Breech Foundation partially support Red Hen Press.

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