Warnings from the Future

by Ethan Chatagnier

  I am deeply thankful to my parents, Tom Chatagnier and Sylvia Chatagnier. Their support has been constant and multifaceted all the years of my life.

  I am deeply grateful for my children, Ishmael and Colette. They have the best hearts of anyone I know.

  And above all, I am thankful for Laura, whose love makes the world I live in.

  Stories from this volume first appeared, some in altered form, in: Cincinnati Review (“The Unplayable Études”), Five Points (“Every Face in the Crowd” as “Every Face Was in the Crowd”), Georgia Review (“Retrograde Mountain Time”), Glimmer Train (“Dentists”), Kenyon Review Online (“The Law of Threes”), Michigan Quarterly Review (“As Long as the Laughter” as “Warnings from the Future”), New England Review and The Pushcart Prize XLII (“Miracle Fruit”).

  About the Author

  Ethan Chatagnier has been awarded a Pushcart Prize in fiction and published stories in journals including Glimmer Train, New England Review, Georgia Review, Cincinnati Review, and Five Points. A graduate of Fresno State and Emerson College, he lives in Fresno, California, with his family.

  About the Publisher

  Acre Books, the small press offshoot of The Cincinnati Review, aims to build on the excellence of its parent publication, bringing you volumes upon volumes of beautifully crafted fiction and poetry by new as well as established writers in the US and beyond.