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Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones’s last book is Zombie Bake-Off. His next is Growing Up Dead in Texas, which this story really is the dedication for, except it’s not in the book. He says this: “I blurbed Michael Kimball’s brilliant Dear Everybody back forever ago, and then by six or seven years later, in a thieving state of mind, forgot that this was his form, not mine. So, for more like ‘Dedication,’ hit Dear Everybody, everybody. But I was also trying to re-tell Peter Tysver’s amazing wonderful perfect “After the Stations of the Cross.” So read that too.”

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Story: Dedication
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