The Pocket Wife (28 page)

PHOTO BY B. CRAWFORD, EDITED BY LINDA BRAZEAU

SUSAN CRAWFORD
is a four-time winner of the Atlanta Writers Club award for her short fiction and poetry. Her work has been published in the literary magazines
Loves Lost and Found, Long Story Short,
and a short piece in
The Sun
. Susan works for the Department of Technical and Adult Education in Atlanta. This is her first novel.

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The Pocket Wife

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“If You Forget Me” by Pablo Neruda, translated by Donald D. Walsh, from
The Captain's Verses
, copyright © 1972 by Pablo Neruda and Donald D. Walsh. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real.

THE POCKET WIFE
. Copyright © 2015 by Susan Crawford. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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ISBN 978-0-06-236285-8

EPub Edition March 2015 ISBN: 9780062362872

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