Glass Grapes

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Authors: Martha Ronk

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Copyright © 2008 by Martha Ronk

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ronk, Martha Clare.

Glass grapes: stories / by Martha Ronk.—1st ed.

p. cm. — (American reader series ; no. 10)

ISBN 978-1-942683-27-8

I. Title.

PS3568.O574G57 2008

813'.54–dc22

2008019126

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Contents

Part 1

The Watch

The Tea Bowl

Old Nylon Bathrobes

The Score

Glass Grapes

The Sofa

Cones

The Tattoo

Her Subject/His Subject

The Gift

My Son and the Bicycle Wheel

Myopia

The Lightbulb

The Ring

Part 2

La Belle Dame

Marybeth and the Fish

Blue/Green

Their Calendar

The Flea Market

Hands

Like Visiting Joseph Cornell

Part 3

The Letter

The Photograph

Soft Conversation

Listening In

Page 42

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Colophon

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