Karen Brown is the author of¿Pins and Needles: Stories, winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and The Longings of Wayward Girls: A Novel.¿Her stories have been included in The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 and The Best American Short Stories 2008.

Acknowledgments

Little Sinners

Swimming

Stillborn

Homing

The Philter

An Heiress Walks Into a Bar

The Fountain

Passing

Leaf House

Mistresses

Housewifery

Karen Brown is the author of Pins and Needles: Stories, winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and The Longings of Wayward Girls: A Novel. Her stories have been included in The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 and The Best American Short Stories 2008.