Acknowledgements

A number of these stories have appeared in various literary magazines, including The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, and The Walrus. Some subsequently resurfaced in The Journey Prize Anthology, Canadian Notes & Queries, and Best Canadian Stories. “Bigmouth” first appeared in a handsome series of Biblioasis limited editions.

The medical information cited in the story “In Other Words” with regard to Piero di Cosimo’s The Death of Procris, may be found in an article in The Guardian (“The fine art of medical diagnosis”), concerning the teaching and sleuthing methods of British surgeon and art critic Michael Baum.

Merci bien to the Ontario Arts Council’s Writers’ Reserve program.