The PEN O. Henry Prize Stories 2012

by Laura Furman

  “Leak” first appeared in The Threepenny Review. Copyright © 2010 by Sam Ruddick. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “The Woman Who Lived in the House” first appeared in A Public Space. Copyright © 2010 by Salvatore Scibona. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Boys Town” from You Think That’s Bad: Stories by Jim Shepard, copyright © 2011 by Jim Shepard. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

  “The Hare’s Mask” first appeared in Harper’s Magazine. Copyright © 2011 by Mark Slouka. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “The First Wife” first appeared in New England Review. Copyright © 2011 by Christine Sneed. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “A Birth in the Woods” first appeared in Ecotone. Copyright © 2011 by Kevin Wilson. Reprinted by permission of the author.