The following stories have appeared, in slightly different form (and in some cases with different titles), in other venues: “What He’s Poised to Do” in The L; “Barn” on Fivechapters.com; “The Hunter and the Hunted” in OneStory; “The Govindan Ananthanarayanan Academy for Moral and Ethical Practice and the Treatment of Sadness Resulting from the Misapplication of the Above” in McSweeney’s, issue 29; “A Bunch of Blips” in Lumina; “To Kill the Pink” in The Lifted Brow.
In addition, the stories “What He’s Poised to Do,” “The Govindan Ananthanarayanan Academy for Moral and Ethical Practice and the Treatment of Sadness Resulting from the Misapplication of the Above,” “From the Front,” “Country Life Is the Only Life Worth Living; Country Love Is the Only Love Worth Giving,” and “Hope” appeared in slightly different form in Correspondences, a limited-edition boxed set of stories published in 2008 by Hotel St. George Press.
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