There Must Be Some Mistake (24 page)
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Authors: Frederick Barthelme
FREDERICK BARTHELME
is the author of fourteen previous books of fiction. Until 2010, he directed the writing program at the University of Southern Mississippi and edited
Mississippi Review.
He now edits
New World Writing,
an online magazine started in 1995.
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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2014 by Frederick Barthelme
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