Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories (21 page)

Acknowledgments

Thank you to the editors of the magazines in which these stories were first published, in slightly different form:

Alaska Quarterly Review
: “Current,” “Brisket”

Boulevard
: “Fridge”

Colorado Review
: “Ransom,” “Between,” “Wash”

Connecticut Review
: “Fedora”

Cottonwood
: “Dark Ages” (first published as “Among Nymphs”)

Epoch
: “Bruise,” “Coat”

Herman Review
: “The Kiss”

Image
: “Flies”

Indiana Review
: “Voyeur of Rain”

Joe
: “Fantasy”

Manoa
: “Confession,” “The Samaritan” (first published as “The Girl Downstairs”)

McSweeney’s
: “Happy Ending”

Michigan Quarterly Review
: “The Story of Mist”

Monkey Business
: “Naked”

New Letters
: “Transaction”

O, The Oprah Magazine
: “Vista di Mare”

Oxford Magazine
: “Alms”

Playboy
: “Tea Ceremony”

Ploughshares
: “Misterioso,” “A Confluence of Doors,” “Ant,” “Swing”

Poetry
: “Pink Ocean”

Quarterly West
: “Aria”

Rattapallax
: “Goodwill”

Telescope
: “Midwife”

The Idaho Review
: “Ice”

The Iowa Review
: “Here Comes the Sun”

The Literarian
: “Inland Sea”

The Ohio Review
: “Transients Welcome”

The Pequod
: “Fingerprints”

The Seattle Review
: “Belly Button”

The Southern Review
: “The Question,” “Ordinary Nudes”

The Washington Post Magazine
: “Córdoba”

Tin House
: “The Start of Something,” “Arf,” “Fiction”

Transatlantic Review
: “Ravenswood” (first published as “The Conductor, the Nun, the Streetcar”)

TriQuarterly
: “I Never Told This to Anyone,” “Flu”

X, A Journal of the Arts
: “Hometown”

Witness
: “Drive”

Thanks also to the editors of the following magazines in which later versions of some of these stories were published:
After Hours
;
Dimensional Lines
;
Flash
;
Jelly Bucket
;
Mirabella
;
Oak Bend Review
;
Skywriting
;
SmokeLong Quarterly
;
The MacGuffin
;
Memphis State Review
;
The Nervous Breakdown
;
Water~Stone Review.

And thank you to the editors of the following anthologies in which some of these pieces appeared:
An Anthology of Very Short Fiction
, Flatmancrooked Press;
Bestial Noise
, Tin House Books;
Blue Cathedral
, Red Hen Press;
Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction
, Rose Metal Press;
Flash Fiction Funny
, Blue Light Press;
Flash Fiction International
, Norton;
Hint Fiction
, Norton;
Just Good Reading from the Pages of “The Critic
,
”
Thomas More Press;
Micro
, White Pine Press;
Micro Fiction
, Norton;
PP/FF
, Starcherone Books;
Shorts
, Norton;
Sudden Flash Youth
, Persea Books;
The Party Train
, White Pine Press;
The Southern California Anthology
, the University of Southern California Master of Professional Writing Program;
The Wedding Cake in the Middle of the Road
, Norton.

A special thanks to Motoyuki Shibata and to Philippe Biget for their translations of some of these pieces into Japanese and French; to Susan Stamberg and NPR’s
Weekend Edition
, who first commissioned and broadcast “I Never Told This to Anyone”; and to Judith Kitchen and Stan Rubin, founders of the State Street Press, Brockport, New York, which in 1993 published a twenty-eight-page chapbook titled
The Story of Mist
, in which several of these pieces, in earlier versions, appeared.

This book was finished and reworked during time afforded by a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation.

ALSO BY STUART DYBEK

FICTION

Paper Lantern

I Sailed with Magellan

The Coast of Chicago

Childhood and Other Neighborhoods

POETRY

Streets in Their Own Ink

Brass Knuckles

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright © 2014 by Stuart Dybek

All rights reserved

First edition, 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dybek, Stuart, 1942–

        [Short stories. Selections]

        Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories / Stuart Dybek. — First edition.

            pages    cm

        eISBN 978-0-374-71055-2

        ISBN 978-0-374-28050-5 (paperback)

        I. Title.

    PS3554.Y3 A6 2014

    813'.54—dc23

2013033912

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