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Excerpt from “You Came Last Season” by Gregory Corso copyright © 1955 by Gregory Corso. Reprinted with permission by City Lights Books.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the publishers of earlier versions of these stories: The Atlantic Fiction for Kindle, “Must Come Down”; Slake, The Best American Mystery Stories 2011, “Baby Killer”; The Summerset Review, “The Wolf of Bordeaux”; The Sun, “The 100-to-1 Club”; The Southern Review, “Gather Darkness”; New World Writing, “Instinctive Drowning Response”; Bull, “Apocrypha”; Kenyon Review Online, “After All”; Southern California Review, “Sweet Nothing”; Alaska Quarterly Review, “To Ashes.”

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