COPYRIGHT © 2015 Dale Herd

COVER AND BOOK DESIGN by Linda Koutsky

AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH © Sophie Calle

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CIP INFORMATION

Herd, Dale, 1940–

[Short stories. Selections]

Empty pockets : new and selected stories / by Dale Herd.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-56689-382-4 (ebook)

1. Title.

PS3558.E66A6 2014

813’.54—DC23

2014006996

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PERMISSIONS

The author is indebted to the following publishers for permission to reprint copyrighted work: Donald Allen, Four Seasons Foundation, for Early Morning Wind; Lee Robert De Lapp, Richard Gates, and Terry Nemeth, Mudra, for Diamonds; and Michael Wolfe, Tombouctou Books, for Wild Cherries.

The author would also like to thank the following poets for their support in bringing this book into existence: Bill Berkson, Michael Lally, Lewis Mac-Adams, Duncan McNaughton, Kevin Opstedal, and Michael Wolfe.