Copyright © 2019 by S. P. Tenhoff

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Tenhoff, S. P., author.
Title: The involuntary sojourner : stories / S.P. Tenhoff.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019023453 (print) | LCCN 2019023454 (ebook) | ISBN
9781609809645 (paperback) | ISBN 9781609809652 (ebk)
Classification: LCC PS3620.E546 A6 2019 (print) | LCC PS3620.E546 (ebook)
| DDC 813/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019023453
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019023454

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The following stories previously appeared, sometimes in slightly different form, in the following publications: “Ten Views of the Border,” American Short Fiction; “Maseru Casaba 9,” The Antioch Review; “Liability,” Swink and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading; “The Visitors,” The Gettysburg Review; “Winter Crane,” Fiction International; “Diorama: Retirement Party, White Plains, 1997,” Conjunctions; “Ichiban,” Confrontation and Sequestrum; “The Book of Explorers” and “Kurobe and the Secrets of Puppetry,” The Southern Review; “The Involuntary Sojourner: A Case Study,” Conjunctions’ online magazine.