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Authors: Kurt Vonnegut

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The Petrified Ants
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2009 by The Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Trust
Foreword © 2009 by Sidney Offit

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Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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The story “The Petrified Ants” will appear in
Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction
by Kurt Vonnegut, forthcoming from Delacorte Press.

eISBN: 978-0-440-33939-7

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