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Warner, John, 1970–
   [Short stories. Selections]
   Tough day for the army : stories / John Warner.
       pages ; cm. — (Yellow shoe fiction)
   ISBN 978-0-8071-5802-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8071-5803-6 (pdf) —
ISBN 978-0-8071-5804-3 (epub) — ISBN 978-0-8071-5805-0 (mobi)
   I. Warner, John, 1970– II. Title.
   PS3623.A86328A6 2014
   813'.6—dc23

2014011185

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, places, circumstances, and events are the product of the author’s imagination, or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual occurrences, institutions, or individuals, living or dead, is coincidental.

These stories have appeared previously (sometimes in radically different form) in the following publications: “Return-to-Sensibility Problems after Penetrating Captive Bolt Stunning of Cattle in Commercial Beef Slaughter Plant #5867: Confidential Report,” Ninth Letter; “Monkey and Man,” Bull: Fiction for Men; “Corrections and Clarifications” and “My Best Seller,” Swink; “Second Careers,” The Morning News; “Homosexuals Threaten the Sanctity of Norman’s Marriage,” Pank; “Notes from a Neighborhood War,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency; “Tuesday, the Bad Zoo,” Zoetrope All-Story Extra; “What I Am, What I Found, What I Did,” McNeese Review; “Poet Farmers,” Chicago Reader; “Tough Day for the Army,” Tarpaulin Sky, McSweeney’s Quarterly; “A Love Story,” Printers Row Journal.

The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.