Four for a Quarter: Fictions

Acknowledgments

I thank the editors of the following magazines for including a take or two or four in their albums:

Third Bed, Post Road, Other Voices, Puerto del Sol, Chicago Review, Fugue, Brooklyn Rail, Hotmetal Bridge, failbetter, Northwest Review, Cutthroat, Short Fiction, Indiana Review, Seems, The Antioch Review, Talking River Review, The Bellingham Review, Parakeet, Bomb, Western Humanities Review, Croonbergh's Fly, Tusculum Review, McSweeney's, Stone Canoe, New Orleans Review, American Voice, Southeast Review, mud luscious, Second Run, Nebraska Review, Rio Grande Review, Chicago Review, Keyhole, Salt Hill, The Johns Hopkins Review, Mississippi Valley Review, Nerve, Smut, Cavalier, Mid-American Review, Pendulum, symploke, Hunger Mountain, American Letters and Commentary, Sentence, Windless Orchard, Southern Indiana Review, The Prose Poem, Key Satch (el), 100 Words, American Short Fiction.

“A Perimenopausal Jacqueline Kennedy, Two Years After the Assassination, Aboard the M/Y Christina, off Eubeoa, Bound for the Island of Alonnisos, Devastated by a Recent Earthquake, Drinks Her Fourth Bloody Mary with Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.“ first appeared in Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, edited by Tara L. Masih and published by Rose Metal Press.

Thanks too to the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Alabama for providing the funds to make the completion of this book possible.

Smile! Team FC2: Lance Olson, R.M. Berry, Brenda Mills, Dan Waterman. Jeffery DiLeo, Carmen Edington, Tom Williams, Charles Alcorn. Lou Robinson, Lou Robinson, Lou Robinson, Lou Robinson designed the cover and interior pages. Mindy Wilson proofed, edited, queried, corrected. Cheese! Team Team: Susan Neville, Mike Wilkerson, Michael Rosen, Jay Brandon. Look up, Team Alabama! Sandy Huss, Robin Behn, Joel Brouwer, Wendy Rawlings! Peter Streckfus, Kellie Wells, Dave Madden, John Crowley! Hold still! Lex Williford, Joyelle McSweeney, Kate Bernheimer, Bruce Smith! Paul Maliszewski, Melanie Rae Thon, Nancy Esposito, Chris Leland & Osvaldo Sabino, you all didn't blink. This started with the photo booth in the Woolworth's of Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and my former students who submitted their finals finally! Thank you! Carl Peterson, Kate Lorenz, Brian Oliu voguing! Yes! Team Y: David, Robert, Arty, Sam! Fierce! Marian Young! Hold it, Jim Harpole! Jo, unretouched! Don't blink! Sam & Nick, Mom & Dad! Now, just one more, Theresa! Everyone, everyone watch the birdie!