*** acknowledgements monster in gargoyle punk band in in posse review , and a piece of it in listen : 29 short conversations ( brown paper publishing , 2009 ) the door in mid-south review blunge in muse apprentice guild supermarket in orchid killer as an artist collaboration at forty forty press my friend , bob canaletto in the edward society and southern voices 2 delitescent selves in potomac review strangers in love in soupletter a small fire in ghoti magazine , and was also nominated by them for a pushcart harry styrene and the holy virgin in 3711 atlantic the boy who used up a word in the melic review notes toward the story in cranky mike and doris hhad everything in cordite publisher in eclectica and southern gothic , and as a chapbook from workers write press aftermath in quick fiction character in mannequin envy mystical participation in cellar door haunted in thirst for fire shadow work in the pinch also , blunge and aftermath appeared in the chapbook short story and other short stories ( parallel press , 2006 ) *** the afterword gratitude : thanks to my big brother , mark , the storyteller .