Copyright, Days of Awe

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“Brother on Sunday” first appeared in The New Yorker; “Whose Story Is It and Why Is It Always on Her Mind?” in The National Media Museum; “Days of Awe” in Granta; “Hello Everybody” in Electric Literature; “All Is Good Except for the Rain” in The Guardian; “Your Mother Was a Fish” in Ghaha Amer, Gagosian Gallery; “The Last Good Time” in Insomnia and the Greenhouse, Koen van den Broek, Hatje Cantz Germany; “Be Mine” in The Guardian and East Magazine; “A Prize for Every Player” in Bill Owens Collected Works, Damiani Editore, Italy; “The Omega Point, or Happy Birthday Baby” in One Story and Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge, MASS MoCA; “She Got Away” in Playboy.

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These selections are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.