Copyright © 2002 by Fred Stenson
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“The Dog in the Van,” from White Buick, by Greg Hollingshead. Copyright © 1992 by Greg Hollingshead. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“Visitation,” from Mona Lisa Smiled a Little, by Rachel Wyatt. Copyright © 1999 by Rachel Wyatt.Reprinted with permission by the author.
“Half-Past Eight,” from A Sleep Full of Dream”, by Edna Alfotd. Copyright © 1981 by Edna Alford. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“Stranger than Fiction,” copyright © Diane Schoemperlen 1989, currently in her collection of selected stories, Red Plaid Shirt (Harper Collins 2002).
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Stenson, Fred, 1951-
Thing feigned or imagined
Print ISBN 0-920159-93-1
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I. Fiction——Technique. 2. Fiction——Authorship.
1. Title.
PN3355.S73 2002 808.3 C2002-920787-3
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