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Copyright © Pamela Mordecai, 2015

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All characters in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Chapter 3 (“The Burning Tree and the Balloon Man”) was previously published in
Pink Icing: Stories
. It appears here by permission of Insomniac Press.

Editor: Diane Young

Design: Courtney Horner

Epub Design: Carmen Giraudy

Cover Design: Laura Boyle

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Mordecai, Pamela, author

Red jacket / Pamela Mordecai.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-4597-2940-7

I. Title.

PS8576.O6287R43 2015 C813'.54 C2014-905056-9

C2014-905057-7

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