Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain (29 page)

Thanks to my teachers at SFSU and my advisor, Robert Glück. Thanks to Progressive Grounds, L's Café, Nervous Dog, and Socha for the coffee and pleasant tables. Ada and Dave, I could not have written this without your love and support. Thank you.

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© 2008 by Kirsten Menger-Anderson. All rights reserved.

Stories in this collection originally appeared, in slightly different form, in the following publications: “Reading Grandpa's Head” in the
Maryland Review;
“The Baquet” in the
Southwest Review;
“The Story of Her Breasts” in
Plaztik Press;
“The Doctors” in
Post Road;
“Salk and Sabin” in
Ploughshares.

This is a work of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available for a previous edition of this work.

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