by Aimee Bender
Copyright © 2005 by Aimee Bender
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Some of the stories in this book were published, in slightly different form, in the following journals: “Death Watch” in Dust-Up; “End of the Line” in Tin House; “The Meeting” and “Motherfucker” in Fence; “Debbieland” in Black Clock; “Fruit and Words” in Mid-American Review; “Jinx” in Bridge, Pushcart Prize Anthology; “I Will Pick Out Your Ribs (from My Teeth)” in Land-Grant College Review; “Ironhead” in Joe; “Job’s Jobs” in LA Weekly, Other Voices; “Dearth” in On the Rocks, KGB Reader; “The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers” in McSweeney’s; and “The Leading Man” in The Paris Review.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:
Bender, Aimee.
Willful creatures : stories / Aimee Bender.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Fantasy fiction, American. I. Title.
PS3552.E538447W55 2005
813′.54-dc22
2004065515
eISBN: 978-0-307-49325-5
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