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PUBLICATION HISTORY
These stories were previously published as follows: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, Fence, 1998
Water Off a Black Dog's Back, Century, 1995
The Specialist's Hat, Event Horizon, 1998
Flying Lessons, Asimov's, 1995
Travels with the Snow Queen, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, winter 1996/7
Vanishing Act, Realms of Fantasy, 1996
Survivor's Ball, or, The Do
Shoe and Marriage, 4 Stories, 2000
The Girl Detective, Event Horizon, 1999
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am extremely grateful to the following people. Some of them are relatives, some are friends, some are writers or editors. All of them have been incredibly kind encouraging. Some of them have cooked meals for me, or taught me various card games, or pointed me towards necessary books, or read my stories when I needed readers. I was a member of various workshops while writing these stories: I owe a lot to the instructors and members of the MFA workshop at UNC-G, Clarion East, Sycamore Hill, the Cambridge Auxiliary Women's Workshop, CSFW, and Rio Hondo. Partial inspiration for "The Specialist's Hat" came from an exhibit at the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, MA. I borrowed part of a passage (stuck up beside an empty exhibit case) to begin the longest poem in that story. Also adapted, for that same story, is a passage about snake whiskey from a folklore exhibit in Raleigh, NC. I would like to thank my mother, A