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  “Something Rich and Strange”—first published in Shade 2004, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay

  “The Dowry”—first published in The Southern Review, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay

  “A Sort of Miracle”—first published in Nothing Gold Can Stay

  “The Corpse Bird”—first published in The South Carolina Review, reprinted in Burning Bright

  “Dead Confederates”—first published in Shenandoah, reprinted in Burning Bright

  “The Woman at the Pond”—first published in The Southern Review, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay

  “A Servant of History”—first published in Nothing Gold Can Stay

  “Twenty-Six Days”—first published in The Washington Post, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay

  “Last Rite”—first published in the Greensboro Review, reprinted in This Is Where We Live: New North Carolina Short Stories, Casualties, and Chemistry and Other Stories

  “Blackberries in June”—first published in Chemistry and Other Stories

  “Chemistry”—first published in Casualties, reprinted in Chemistry and Other Stories

  “The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth”—first published in A Carolina Literary Companion, reprinted in The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina

  “The Harvest”—first published in The Book of Men Anthology, edited by Colum McCann

  “Badeye”—first published in The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina

  “Love and Pain in the New South”—first published in Charleston Magazine, reprinted in The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina

  “Shiloh,” previously entitled “The Return”—first published in TriQuarterly

  “Outlaws”—first published in Oxford American

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  PHOTO © BY ULF ANDERSEN

  RON RASH is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to four other prizewinning novels, including The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and five collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University.

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  ALSO BY RON RASH

  FICTION

  Nothing Gold Can Stay

  The Cove

  Burning Bright

  Serena

  The World Made Straight

  Saints at the River

  One Foot in Eden

  Chemistry and Other Stories

  Casualties

  The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth

  POETRY

  Waking

  Raising the Dead

  Among the Believers

  Eureka Mill

  CREDITS

  COVER DESIGN BY ALLISON SALTZMAN

  COVER ARTWORK © BY JAMIE HEIDEN

  COPYRIGHT

  These pages serve as a continuation of this copyright page.

  SOMETHING RICH AND STRANGE. Copyright © 2014 by Ron Rash. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  ISBN 978-0-06-234934-7

  EPub Edition November 2014 ISBN 9780062349361

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