Authors: Urban Waite

The Carrion Birds (32 page)

URBAN WAITE
is the
author of
The Terror of Living
, named one of
Esquire
’s Ten Best Books of 2011. His short
fiction has appeared in the
Best of the West
2009
anthology, the
Southern Review,
and other journals.
He has degrees from the University of Washington, Western Washington University,
and Emerson College. He lives in Seattle with his wife.

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This book is a work of fiction. The
characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and
are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE CARRION
BIRDS
. Copyright © 2013 by Urban Waite. All rights reserved under
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FIRST
EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-221688-5

EPub Edition © APRIL 2013 ISBN:
9780062216908

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