Noise (18 page)

The editor would like to thank Sonic Youth, Pete Ayrton, John Williams, Rebecca Gray, Matt Thorne, Niamh Murray, Ruthie Petrie, Richard Thomas, David Gaffney, Sarah Hymas, Emily Carter Roiphe, Moshe Levy, Tom McCarthy, Tony O'Neill, Ben Myers, Nathan Tyree, Arthur Nersesian, Carlton Mellick III, Mitch Cullin, Paul Di Fillippo, Ewan Morrison, Catherine O'Flynn, Pru Rowlandson, Gary Ramsay and (as ever) Louisa, Harriet, Samuel & Martha.

P
ETER
W
ILD
is the coauthor of
Before the Rain
and the editor of
Perverted by Language: Fiction Inspired by the Fall
and
The Flash
. His fiction has appeared in numerous journals, e-zines, anthologies, and magazines, including
Dogmatika, 3:AM Magazine, NOÖ Journal, SNReview, Word Riot, Straight from the Fridge, Thieves Jargon, Pindeldyboz, Pen Pusher, Scarecrow, The Beat, Litro,
and
Dreams That Money Can Buy
. He lives in Manchester with his wife and three children.

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NOISE
. Copyright © 2009 by Peter Wild. Copyright © 2009 for individual stories held by the author. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, 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 hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub © Edition DECEMBER 2008 ISBN: 9780061984617

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