Do Not Deny Me

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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First Simon & Schuster trade paperbacks edition June 2009

“Wilderness” first appeared in One Story, no. 105 (2008). “Soldiers of Spiritos” first appeared in Northwest Review, no. 47.2 (2009).

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Thompson, Jean.

Do not deny me : stories / Jean Thompson

p. cm.

I. Title.

PS3570.H625D6 2009

813’.54—dc22

2008041316

ISBN 978-1-4165-9563-2

ISBN 978-1-4165-9846-6 (ebook)