Prime Number: 17 Stories from Illinois Short FictionAnn Lowry Weir |
Contents
Indisposed | 3 |
Bodies of the Rich | 12 |
The Actes and Monuments | 32 |
Pastorale | 67 |
At the Fence | 86 |
One More River | 100 |
Billie Loses Her Job | 113 |
Home Fires | 140 |
Early Morning Lonely Ride | 174 |
The Next Time I Meet Buddy Rich | 187 |
The Red Dress | 199 |
A New Life | 216 |
Ladies Who Knit for a Living | 232 |
Surviving Adverse Seasons | 258 |
Birds in Air | 301 |
The Two Sides of Things | 310 |
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