Travelling Light (22 page)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many of these stories were published, in slightly different versions, in
Night Driving
(Macmillan of Canada, 1987.) Stories not in that book first appeared in the following publications: “Smell of Smoke,”
The Walrus
; “To the Dead Girl,”
Rubicon
; “Father's Son,”
Brick
; “The Ice Story,”
Saturday Night
; “Fire Stories,”
Translation
; “Fiona the Emigrant,”
Fiction
; “Cup of Tea,”
Globe and Mail
. “Mermaids Too” was published as “The Dream of Tenderness” in
Matrix
.

PHOTO: RYAN GOODRICH

PETER BEHRENS
is the Governor General's Literary Award–winning author of
The Law of Dreams
and
The O'Briens
, published around the world to wide acclaim. His short stories and essays have appeared in 
Atlantic Monthly
, 
Tin House
, 
Saturday Night
, and the 
National Post
. He was born in Montreal and lives on the coast of Maine with his wife and son.

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