by Marc Parent
Stories by
AIMEE BENDER
BENJAMIN CHEEVER
MICHAEL CONNELLY
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN
ROSIE O’DONNELL
CHRIS OFFUTT
MARC PARENT
ANNA QUINDLEN
JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ
ALICE SEBOLD
LAUREN SLATER
Edited by
MARC PARENT
These stories are works of fiction. Names, characters,
places, and incidents are the products of the author’s
imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is
entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2005 by Marc Parent
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American Copyright Conventions. Published in
the United States by Random House, an imprint of
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The secret society of demolition writers : stories / by
Aimee Bender ... [et al.] ; edited by Marc Parent.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Short stories, American. I. Bender, Aimee.
II. Parent, Marc.
PS648.S5S426 2005
813’.0108—dc22 2004051355
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