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The night of the RED MOON is coming
May 2013, from Grand Central Publishing
http://www.benjaminpercy.com/novels/red-moon/
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Contents
Welcome
Swans
Unearthed
The Iron Moth
Bigfooting
Winter’s Trappings
The Bearded Lady Says Goodnight
The Language of Elk
The Colony
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
About the Author
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Copyright
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2013 by Benjamin Percy
Copyright copyright © 2013 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights.
Some of these stories first appeared in modified form in the Greensboro Review, Idaho Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Sycamore Review, Rosebud, and Swink.
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Originally published in modified form by Carnegie Mellon University Press, June 2006.
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