I Knew You'd Be Lovely (26 page)
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Authors: Alethea Black
Heartfelt thanks to: Lee K. Abbott, Carl Allen, Miriam Allen, Ted Allen, Matthew Arkin, Lisa Bankoff, Blakeney Bartlett, Anne Bartoc, Anna Becker, Beverly Bell, Vilem Benes, Ashley Black, Christina Black, Fischer Black, Kerry Black, Lee and CeCe Black, Melissa Black, Mimi Black, Paige Black, all my friends at
Bloomberg Business Week
, Beth Boswell, Dennis Boutsikaris, Guy Boyd, Alexa Brandenberg, Aaron Brown, Suzanne Brownstein, Robert Byrnes, Bill Camp, Stephen Cavitt, Clay McLeod Chapman, Julia Coffey, Margo Crespin, Alice Elliott Dark, Aleta Davies, Sarah Davis, Alex Dawson, Danielle DeVine, Rebecca Donner, Peter Eicher, Marc Fitten, Cynthia Flaxenburg, Robert Fogarty, Elliott Forrest, Brian Frazer, David Gates, Anney Giobbe, Nicole Goguen, Natalie Goldberg, Peter Hayes, Randell Haynes, Joshua Henkin, George Herrmann, Robin Hirsch, Ron Hogan, Hillary Holloway, Emily Barton Hopkins, Tom Jenks, Thom Jones, Joy Katz, Jennie Kaufman, Céline Keating, John
Kennedy, the Kiley sisters, Autumn Kindelspire, Valerie Leff, Alex Lindquist, David Lynn, Steve McCarthy, Perry Mehrling, N. Scott Momaday, Christianna Nelson, Jim O'Grady, Larry O'Keefe, Anne O'Sullivan, ZZ Packer, David Palecek, David Pengilly, Paul Plissey, Sharon Pomerantz, Spence Porter, Chris Power, Christine Pride, Patricia Randell, M. Z. (“Reb Zed”) Ribalow, Joshua Roberts, David Rocks, Rick Rofihe, Diane Salvatore, Scott Sanderson, Alex Sapountzis, Jonathan Schorr, Campbell Scott, John Shea, Ian Sheehy, Isaiah Sheffer, Joan Silber, Bill Silverman, Linda Simone, Gerry Skinder, Robbyn Spratt, Scott Stossel, Jill Sverdlove, Jim Taibi, the Tawes family, Michelle Toth, Grant Tracey, Brenda Ueland, Michael Voll, Eric Vrooman, Craig Wall, David Wallace-Wells, Susan Walter, Alexis Washam, Rob Weatherbee, Matthew Wells, Bob Whelan, Ron Witmer, Yeshua, Sarah Young, Steve Zimmer, and a standing ovation to Jeff Jackson.
The author wishes to thank the editors of the following publications, in which these stories first appeared: “That of Which We Cannot Speak” in
The Antioch Review
, “The Only Way Out Is Through” in
Narrative
, “Good in a Crisis” in
The North American Review
, “The Thing Itself” in
Arts & Letters
(winner of the 2008 Prize for Fiction), “The Laziest Form of Revelation” in
The Kenyon Review
, “Mollusk Makes a Comeback” in
The Chattahoochee Review
, “I Knew You'd Be Lovely” in
Inkwell
(winner of the 2007 Fiction Competition), “Proof of Love” in
American Literary Review
, “We've Got a Great Future Behind Us” in
Green Mountains Review
, and “Double-Blind” in
The Saint Ann's Review
.
