Beautiful girls / by Beth Ann Bauman.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-931561-35-4 (Hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Women—Fiction. 2. Girls—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3602.A95 B43 2003
813’.6—dc21
2002153548
Excerpt from “Memory” from The Book of Images by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow. Translation copyright © 1991 by Edward Snow. Reprinted by permissions of North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus and Group, LLC.
“Stew” was originally printed in Literal Latter
“The Middle of the Night” appeared in Many Lights in Many Windows: Twenty Years of Great Fiction and Poetry from The Writers Community.
Book design by Dorothy Carico Smith.
Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.