LYSLEY TENORIO’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and The Pushcart Prize anthologies. A winner of the Whiting Writer’s Award and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in the Philippines, he currently lives in San Francisco and is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which these stories first appeared, in slightly different form: “Monstress” and “L’amour, CA” in The Atlantic; “Superassassin” in The Atlantic and Best New American Voices 2001; “The Brothers” in Manoa and The Pushcart Prize 2006; “Felix Starro” in Zoetrope: All-Story; “The View from Culion” in The Chicago Tribune; “Help” in Ploughshares and Broken Umbrella; “Save the I-Hotel” in Manoa and Best New American Voices 2010.
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
MONSTRESS. Copyright © 2012 by Lysley Tenorio. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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