Pale Morning Dun: Stories

176 Pages·2004·0.59 MB·English

by  Richard Dokey

Pale Morning Dun

Pale Morning Dun
Stories by
Richard Dokey
University of Missouri Press
Columbia and London
Copyright © 2004 by Richard Dokey
University ofMissouri Press,Columbia,Missouri 65201
Printed and bound in the United States ofAmerica
All rights reserved
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Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dokey,Richard.
Pale morning dun :stories / by Richard Dokey.
p.cm.
ISBN 0-8262-1511-4 (alk.paper)
I.Title.
PS3554.O42P35 2004
813’.54—dc22 2003022909
This paper meets the requirements ofthe
American National Standard for Permanence ofPaper
for Printed Library Materials,Z39.48,1984.
Designer:Jennifer Cropp
Typesetter:Crane Composition,Inc.
Printer and binder:The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group
Typefaces:Aquinas and Minion
The following stories, often in somewhat different form, originally
appeared in these periodicals:
“Hampstead’s Folly,” Clockwatch Review; “The Beggar of Union Square,”
Literary Review; “The Monster” and “Never Trust the Weatherman,”
Chariton Review; “Pale Morning Dun” and “The Shopper,” Missouri
Review; “A House in Order,” Writers’ Forum; “The Suicide,” Interim;
“Monkey,” Confrontation; “Vital Statistics,” TriQuarterly; “The Electric
Dog,”Washington Review;“Ace,”Laurel Review;“The Mouse,”Flyway.
PUBLICATIONOFTHISBOOKHASBEENASSISTED
BYTHEWILLIAMPEDENMEMORIALFUND
In Memory Of
JOHN R. MILTON
Editor and Friend

Contents
Hampstead’s Folly 1
Ace 16
The Monster 27
The Mouse 37
Never Trust the Weatherman 51
A House in Order 67
Vital Statistics 81
Monkey 96
The Beggar of Union Square 104
The Electric Dog 115
The Suicide 127
The Shopper 138
Pale Morning Dun 150
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