Love and Other Wounds (15 page)

Thanks to all who helped me shape these stories, and the editors and publishers who gave them their first homes. In particular, thanks to Todd Robinson, an early champion of these stories as a writing-group partner, editor, publisher, and friend. Read
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Thanks to Nat Sobel, who waited for seven years while I got my act together.

Thanks to Megan Lynch for taking a chance.

Thanks to the writers who have made my time in television feel like a paid M.F.A., in particular Bruno Heller and Tom Szentgyorgyi.

Thanks to Elizabeth, who doesn't mind living in a world where everything talks.

JORDAN HARPER
was born and educated in Missouri. He has been a music journalist, film critic, and TV writer. He is currently a writer-producer for
Gotham
. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Elizabeth.

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Cover photograph © by Nancy Newberry

Title page photograph by Suet Yee Chong

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

LOVE AND OTHER WOUNDS
. Copyright © 2015 by Jordan Harper. 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.

FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-239438-5

EPub Edition JULY 2015 ISBN 9780062394392

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