Why They Run the Way They Do (27 page)

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SUSAN PERABO
is Writer in Residence and Professor of English at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She is the author of a collection of short stories,
Who I Was Supposed to Be
, and a novel,
The Broken Places
. Her fiction has been anthologized in
The Best American Short Stories
,
The Pushcart Prize
, and
New Stories from the South
and has appeared in numerous magazines, including
One Story
,
Glimmer Train
,
The Iowa Review
,
The Missouri Review
, and
The Sun
.

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The Broken Places

Who I Was Supposed to Be

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Perabo, Susan, 1969–

[Short stories. Selections]

Why they run the way they do : stories / Susan Perabo.—First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

pages ; cm

I. Title.

PS3566.E673A6 2016

813'.54—dc23

2015025570

ISBN 978-1-4767-6143-5

ISBN 978-1-4767-6145-9 (ebook)