I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking. Leyna Krow

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      Copyright © 2017 by Leyna Krow

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except for review.

      Versions of the following stories have previously been published:

      “I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking” in Santa Monica Review; “Tiger, Tiger” in Sou’wester; “End Times” in Ninth Letter; “Katie Eats Boston Cream Pie at A Motel Diner in Southeast Portland” in South Dakota Review; “Habitat” in The Southeast Review; “Excitable Creatures” in Southern Indiana Review; “Disruption” in Hayden’s Ferry Review.

      Published by

      featherproof books

      Chicago, Illinois

       www.featherproof.com

      First edition

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2016951498

      Print ISBN 978-1-943888-0-85

      Ebook ISBN 978-1-943888-1-22

      Edited by Jason Sommer and Naomi Huffman

      Design by Zach Dodson

      Proofread by Sam Axelrod

      For my mom, and my dad

      Table of Contents

       I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking

       Spud & Spud II (Lt. Colonel Olstead)

       Tiger, Tiger

       Spud & Spud II (Caroline)

       End Times

       Spud & Spud II (Parker Jr.)

       Katie Eats Boston Cream Pie at a Motel Diner in Southeast Portland

       Spud & Spud II (Lt. Colonel Olstead)

       Habitat

       Spud & Spud II (Parker Jr.)

       Excitable Creatures

       Spud & Spud II (Caroline)

       Disruption

       Spud & Spud II (Lt. Colonel Olstead)

       Mr. Stills’ Squid Days

       Acknowledgments

      Index of Things to Come

      Action figures

      Apple-tree-as-mom

      Astronauts

      Backyards

      Babies

      Anticipation of

      Loss of

      Nostalgia for

      Speculation about

      Basements

      BMX bikes

      Boats

      Bodies of water

      Kern River

      Monterey Bay

      Pacific Ocean

      Palouse River

      Puget Sound

      River Ganges

      Breakfast foods

      Cakes/pies

      Cats

      Jungle cats

      Lost cats

      Colleges

      Cabrillo Community College

      Indiana University

      University of Michigan

      University of Nevada, Reno

      University of California Santa Cruz

      Conversations with neighbors

      Dead parents

      Deliberate movement of small rocks

      Dogs/Dog-like-animals

      Dog-as-dad

      Dogs that bite

      Dog on a boat

      Dreams

      Environmental catastrophes

      Acceleration of Earth’s rotation

      Disruption of tides

      Earthquake

      Invasive species

      Tropical storm

      Volcano