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original. A room contains medical equipment. Diane’s an early type who before arriving in Siena had a day planned for her departure. She had made the arrangements so she’d stay during the spring in Italy as an imaginary character with hope.

The following stories have appeared in Harper’s : “If You Ever Get Three or Four Laughing You Weren’t Soon to Forget It,” “As the World Turned Out,” “If Told Correctly It Will Center on Me,” “Woman in Rose Dress,” “Stand,” “One of the Great Drawbacks,” “My First Real Home” (reprinted from Post Road ), “Protection, Prevention, Gazing, Gratified Desire,” “Human Being,” “I Like the Fringe,” “Broom,” “Rude,” “New Life from Dead Things,” “Mrs. Keable’s Brothers,” “None of This Would Have Been Remotely Feasible,” “Pedestal,” “Between Midnight and 6 AM,” “This Has to Be the Best,” “Lord of the Face,” “Being Stared At,” “Give Them Stuff,” “Expectant Motherhood,” “Glee,” “Chicken Winchell.”
     
    These stories first appeared, sometimes in a slightly different form or with a different title, in: Agriculture Reader : “Highlights of the Twilight”; The Brooklyn Rail : “Cockeyed” (originally “She Could Never Have Found a Better or More Delightful One”); Conjunctions : “Ponytail” (originally “Virtue”), “The Newly Made Supper,” “The Use of Fetishes,” “Stop When the Person Becomes Restless or Irritable,” “Weight, Hair, Length”; Esquire online: “The Duck”; Gigantic : “Mood Which Gripped Me”; The Lifted Brow : “Defeat,” “Common Body”; McSweeney’s : “A Man, An Animal,” “Arm Under the Soil,” “Death Bed” (originally “For Now I Was Tall”), “Enormously Pleased,” “Hello! Hi! Hello!,” “My Defects,” “Shelter,” “The Strength,” “Tan Bag,” “Vicky Swanky Was a Beauty”; Post Road : “My First Real Home”; Rampike : “Comfort,” “The Emporium,” “On the Job”; Sleepingfish : “Carnegie Nail”; Triple Canopy : “Religious Behavior”; Western Humanities Review : “The Wedding Mask Door Pull.”
     
    “My First Real Home,” was also reprinted in The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses , 2010.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Diane Williams is the author of six previous books, and the publisher and founding editor of the literary annual NOON. She has taught at Bard College, Syracuse University, and the Center for Fiction. She lives in New York City.

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