Copyright © 2011 Kane X. Faucher
Cover image copyright © 2010 Nicolas Grospierre and used with permission.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Selections in previous incarnations have appeared in Copious Magazine, Ken*Again, Sixth Ward Review, Journal of Experimental Fiction 39, and Camera Obscura (later winning the Outstanding Fiction Award).
The author would like to extend his gratitude to the magazines that published earlier sections of this work, the generous readers who read previous drafts of the novel, and the artist Nicolas Grospierre for kindly granting the publisher permission to reproduce his library image.
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