©Lisa Bird-Wilson, 2013
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This novel 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, is coincidental.
Edited by Warren Cariou
Cover designed by Tania Craan
Cover Photograph "Cyborg Hybrid Teressa (New York)", by KC Adams
Typeset by Susan Buck
Printed and bound in Canada
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Bird-Wilson, Lisa
Just pretending / Lisa Bird-Wilson.
Short stories.
Issued also in electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-55050-546-7
I. Title.
PS8603.I75J88 2013 C813'.6 C2012-908110-8
Issued also in electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-55050-736-2 (EPUB).--ISBN 978-1-55050-737-9 (MOBI)
Coteau Books gratefully acknowledges the financial support of its publishing program by: The Saskatchewan Arts Board, including the Creative Industry Growth and Sustainability Program of the Government of Saskatchewan via the Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport; the Canada Council for the Arts; the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund; and the City of Regina Arts Commission.
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