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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

FURTHER INTERPRETATIONS OF REAL-LIFE EVENTS.
Copyright © 2011 by Kevin Moffett. 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 hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the publications in which many of these stories originally appeared (some in slightly different versions).

“Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events” in
McSweeney's
; reprinted in
The Best American Short Stories 2010

“Buzzers” in
Ecotone

“In the Pines” in
Harvard Review

“First Marriage” in
Land-Grant College Review
; reprinted in
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2008

“Lugo in Normal Time” in
McSweeney's

“English Made Easy” in
American Short Fiction

“The Big Finish” in
FiveChapters

“One Dog Year” in
Tin House
; reprinted in
The Best American Short Stories 2009

FIRST EDITION

EPub Edition ISBN: 9780062069238

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Moffett, Kevin.

Further interpretations of real-life events : stories / Kevin Moffett. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-06-206922-1

I. Title.

PS3613.O365F87 2011

813'.6—dc22

2011012898

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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