Rust and Bone: Stories

Acknowledgments

MY DEEPEST THANKS to the following people for their input, compassion, care, dedication, and support:

Don and Jill Davidson

Erin Tigchelaar

David Davidar

Greg Bechtel

Sarah Heller

Mark Anthony Jarman

Starling Lawrence

John C. Ball

Francis Geffard

Alan Burke

Andrew Kidd

Tony Antoniades

Helen Reeves

Dave Hickey

Tracy Bordian

Sean Johnston

Edward O’Connor

Dave Barnett

Bob Strauss

Kathy and Randy Blondeau

Brett Savory

Shane Ryan Staley

Colleen Hymers

GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT is also made to the following journalswhere some of these stories were first published. My thanks to theirfine editors:

“Rust and Bone” first published as “28 Bones” in The Fiddlehead.

“Rocket Ride” and “Life in the Flesh” in Event.

“On Sleepless Roads” in Prairie Fire.