All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1972, 1978, 1982, 1984, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 by Fay Weldon
“Run and Ask Daddy If He Has Any More Money” originally appeared in Radio Times, 1993, Hodder & Stoughton, 1994.
“Not Even a Blood Relation” originally appeared in Dempsters, in German Marie Claire, and in Heat Haze, a short story collection published in the U.K. by Orion Books limited.
“Wasted Lives” originally appeared in The New Yorker and in South African Cosmopolitan.
“Love Amongst the Artists” originally appeared in The Times (London), 1991.
“Tale of Timothy Bagshott” originally appeared in British Council Anthology, 1992.
“Through a Dustbin, Darkly” originally appeared in Options, 1992.
“Web Central” originally appeared in The Big Issue.
“A Good Sound Marriage” originally appeared in US Journal, 1991.
“Pains” originally appeared in Cosmopolitan, 1994.
“A Question of Timing” was donated to Teenage Trust, 1993.
“Red on Black” originally appeared in British Council New Writing 4, 1994.
“Santa Claus’s New Clothes” originally appeared in The Observer, 1993
“The Pardoner” originally appeared in Literary Review, 1994.
“Heat Haze” originally appeared in Heat Haze.
Cover design by Connie Gabbert
978-1-4804-1245-3
This edition published in 2013 by Open Road Integrated Media
345 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014