Published by the University of Georgia Press

Athens, Georgia 30602

© 2003 by Eric Shade

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shade, Eric, 1970–

Eyesores : stories / by Eric Shade.

p. cm.

“Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for

Short Fiction.”

ISBN 0-8203-2432-9 (alk. paper)

1. Pennsylvania—Social life and customs—Fiction.

2. City and town life—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3619.H325 E94 2002

813’.6—dc21       2002007151

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ISBN for this digital edition: 978-0-8203-4483-6