The State We're In: Maine Stories (22 page)

Copyright © 2015 by Ann Beattie

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ISBN 978-1-5011-0781-8

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“Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” in
The Branch Will Not Break
by James Wright © 1963 Published by Wesleyan University Press and used by permission.

Table of Contents

What Magical Realism Would Be

The Fledgling

Aunt Sophie Renaldo Brown

Adirondack Chairs

Yancey

Silent Prayer

Endless Rain into a Paper Cup

Duff’s Done Enough

Elvis Is Ahead of Us

Major Maybe

Road Movie

The Little Hutchinsons

The Stroke

Missed Calls

The Repurposed Barn

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