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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are either fictitious or used fictitiously.
Errantry: Strange Stories copyright © 2012 by Elizabeth Hand (elizabethhand.com). All rights reserved. Page 291 of the print version functions as an extenstion of the copyright page.
Cover image “The Hunt in the Forest” by Paolo Uccello by permission of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (ashmolean.org).
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Hand, Elizabeth.
Errantry : strange stories / Elizabeth Hand. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-61873-030-5 (alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-61873-031-2 (ebook)
I. Title.
PS3558.A4619E77 2012
813’.54—dc23
2012035129
Text set in Minion.