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  COPYRIGHT © 2010 PASHA MALLA

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  Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

  Malla, Pasha

  1999/ Pasha Malla.

  Stories published in the May 2010 edition of The Walrus magazine, as part of a collection of three short stories.

  ISBN 978-0-9879989-3-4

  I. Walrus Foundation II. Title.

  PS8501.T86I2 2012 C813'.54 C2012-901829-5

  Designed by Brian Morgan at The Walrus.

  Set in Arno Pro

  Ebook Conversion by Coach House Books

  Cover image for 1999

  illustrated by and COPYRIGHT © CC-BY Rachelle Maynard

  Story appears in Darwin’s Bastards, 2010, Douglas and McIntyre.