This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Published by Akashic Books

©2004 Benjamin Weissman

Drawings by BW

9 Honchos (detail), 1995, gouache on paper, 43” x 34”

Collection of Hirsch Perlman

eISBN: 978-1-617750-90-8
ISBN: 1-888451-49-1

Library of Congress Control Number: 2003109537

Inside layout by Sohrab Habibion

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First printing

Printed in Canada

Some stories in Headless originally appeared in: Another City (anthology), Bomb, Documents Sur L’Art, L.A. Weekly, The Little Theatre of Tom Knechtel (exhibition catalogue), More & Less 3 (Hallucination of Theory), Parkett, Purple, Santa Monica Review, Snowflake, Unnatural Disasters (anthology), and Western Humanities Review.

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