Small Maps of the World

Description

Brooke Biaz’s short stories unearth the bonds between individuals and location but also wonder on the underlying connections between people and their sense of belonging.

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• Literature

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• Published by: Parlor Press, LLC
• Published: 24 October 2005
• Reads: 0
• EAN13: 9781932559583
• Language: English
• Document size: 1 MB

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BROOKE BIAZ

Small Maps of te World

By te same autor

Dancing on te Moon Black Cat, Green Field Teacing Creative Writing Swallowing Film (editor)

Small Maps of te World

Brooke BiaZ

Parlor Press West Lafayette, Indiana www.parlorpress.com

Parlor Press LLC, West Lafayette, Indiana 4706

© 2006 by Parlor Press All rigts reserved. Printed in te United States of America S A N: 2  4 - 8 8 7 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

BiaZ, Brooke.  Small maps of te world / Brooke BiaZ.  p. cm.  ISBN -2-7-4 (acid-free paper) -- ISBN -2- 6-6 (pbk. : acid-free paper) -- ISBN -2-8-2 (Adobe ebook)  I. Title.  PS602.IS6 2006  8’.6--dc22  2000072

Printed on acid-free paper. Globes Illustration © by Bryce Kroll. Used by permission. Vector World © by Alexander Briel PereZ. Used by permission. Cover and book design by David Blakesley

Parlor Press, LLC is an independent publiser of scolarly and trade titles in print and multimedia formats. Tis book is available in paperback, clot and Adobe eBook formats from Parlor Press on te WWW at ttp://www.parlorpress.com. For submission information or to find out about Parlor Press publications, write to Parlor Press, 86 Robinson St., West Lafayette, Indiana, 4706, or e-mail [e-mail].

For Louise, wit all my love

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Contents

T I 3 Time

Heloise Finds a Mammot  Science Fiction  Being Umberto Eco 0 Innsbruck  Te Festival of Funerals 44 A History of Sleeping 2 Te Instrument 6 Recording te Humpback 76 Going to te Volcano 87 Maine Mane 02 Te Bridge 0 Bill and Sue’s Big Adventure  Marvin Studlovsky’s Broter 2 Te Little Merman Turns Sixteen 40 Wolf Boy, Aged 83 2

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T II 159 Place

Arrival 6 Breakfast Is at Eigt 86 Te Entertainment 2 Holiday Romance 2 Hotel Crime 24 A Man Is Not an Island 27 Tourist Attractions 2 Departure  Acknowledgments 6

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Small Maps of te World

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Map-making is not te wole of pilosopy, just as a map or guidebook is not te wole of geogra- py. It is simply a beginning—te very beginning tat is at present lacking, wen people ask: “Wat does it all mean?” or “Wat am I supposed to do wit my life?” —E. F. Scumacer

A Guide for te Perplexed

Yn y fro ddedwyd mae en frueddwydion.*

—Island of te Blest Wels and Iris Legend

Maps codify te miracle of existence.

—Nicolas Crane Mercator:he Man Wo Mapped te Planet

* In tat appy region tere are old dreams.

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