A Trick of the Light

Excerpt from “Up” from

Morning in the Burned House

by Margaret Atwood. Copyright © 1995. Published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company in the United States. Used with permission of the author and her publishers (in their respective territories) and the author’s agent, Curtis Brown Group Ltd., London, acting on behalf of Margaret Atwood. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from page 82 of the book

Alcoholics Anonymous,

copyright 1939, is used by kind permission of AA World Services.

“Not Waving But Drowning” by Stevie Smith from

Collected Poems of Stevie Smith,

copyright 1957 by Stevie Smith. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.