Copyright © 2018 by Steve Toutonghi

All rights reserved.

This is a work 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.

 

Lyrics to the song “Itsi Bitsi” by Eik Skaløe,
are reproduced with permission. The full lyrics are available from
Dansk in the volume Trip - Tekster fra tresserne.

 

Excerpt from “To Daphne and Virginia” by William Carlos Williams, from
The Collected Poems: Volume II, 1939–1962, copyright © 1953 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. (in the US, its territories and Canada). Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited (in the British Common Wealth, excluding Canada).

 

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New York, NY 10003

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Toutonghi, Steve, 1964–

Side life / Steve Toutonghi.

ISBN 978-1-61695-889-3

eISBN 978-1-61695-890-9

1. Virtual reality—Fiction. I. Title

PS3620.O923 S55 2018 813’.6—dc23 2017044466

Interior illustrations © Dasha Bertrand

Interior design by Janine Agro, Soho Press, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

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