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The Brink

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by Austin Bunn


  Credits

  COVER DESIGN by GREGG KULICK

  COVER PHOTOGRAPH © LIUDMILA CHERNOVA / GETTY IMAGES

  Copyright

  THE BRINK. Copyright © 2015 by Austin Bunn. 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 hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Some of these stories, in slightly different forms, appeared in the following: “How To Win an Unwinnable War” (The Atlantic); “Griefer” (Zoetrope); “Getting There & Away”(FiveChapters.com); “The End of the Age Is Upon Us” (American Short Fiction); “Ledge” (One Story and Best American Fantasy); “Everything, All At Once” (The Sun and The Pushcart Prize Anthology); “When You Are The Final Girl” (West Branch); “Curious Father” (Bloom).

  Philip Larken’s “Aubade” reprinted with the permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Faber and Faber Ltd.

  FIRST EDITION

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Bunn, Austin.

  [Short stories. Selections]

  The brink : stories / Austin Bunn. -- First edition.

  pages cm

  ISBN 978-0-06-236261-2 (paperback)

  I. Title.

  PS3602.U55A6 2015

  813’.6--dc23 2014029048

  ISBN 978-0-06-236261-2

  EPub Edition April 2015 ISBN 9780062362629

  15 16 17 18 19 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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