by Amanda Davis
“Amanda Davis makes a promising entrance in her fiction debut.”
—Vanity Fair
“Original and full of promise.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Copyright
Some of these stories have appeared elsewhere in slightly different form: “Prints” and “Chase” in Story; “The Very Moment They’re About” (as “To Kiss Him”) in Seventeen; and “Fat Ladies Floated in the Sky Like Balloons” in Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern.
“Miss Punta Blanca” by Jane Siberry, copyright © 1989 Red Sky Music (SOCAN). International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
“One More Colour” by Jane Siberry, copyright © 1985 Wing-It Music/Red Sky Music (SOCAN). International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
CIRCLING THE DRAIN. Copyright © 1999 by Amanda Davis. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, 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.
EPub © Edition JANUARY 2009 ISBN: 9780061853463
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