For Candida, whose first concern is always the work
The author wishes to express his gratitude to the editors of the following publications in which the stories below first appeared.
“Squeeze” was first published in Callaloo, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1993. “Throwing Earth” was first published in the Texas Review, Vol. XI, Nos. 3 & 4, 1990; and also in That’s What I Like About the South: Southern Short Fiction for the 1990s, Eds. George Garrett and Paul Ruffin, University of South Carolina Press, 1993. “Turned Out” (under the title “Bull Does Nothing”) was first published in Callaloo, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1989.