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Copyright © 2015 by Arthur Bradford

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First edition, 2015

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the publications in which these stories first appeared, in slightly different form:

Cousin Corinne’s Reminder (“Resort Tik Tok”), Five Dials (“Travels with Paul”), McSweeney’s (“Snakebite”), Nerve.com (“Orderly” and “Wendy, Mort, and I”), One Story (“217-Pound Dog”), StoryQuarterly (“Build It Up, Knock It Down”), Tin House (“Turtleface” and “The LSD and the Baby”), and Vice (“Lost Limbs”).

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bradford, Arthur.

       [Short stories. Selections]

       Turtleface and beyond: stories / Arthur Bradford. — First edition.

           pages      cm

       ISBN 978-0-374-27806-9 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-71284-6 (ebook)

       I.  Bradford, Arthur. Turtleface.   II.  Title.

    PS3602.R34 A6 2015

    813'.6—dc23

2014027441

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