Acknowledgments
Acknowledgements are part of a book—similar to the one you now hold—wherein the author(s) dole(s) out appreciation for those who helped in the creation and ultimate publication of the volume. Interestingly, and coincidentally, the Acknowledgments page of a book invariably falls either at the volume’s immediate beginning or terminal pages, as evidenced in the following example: it must be noted that the compilers of the current volume are grateful to the editors of the journals and magazines below where many of the entries in this book were first published, sometimes in different form:

Action, Yes; Abjective; Everyday Genius, Hobart; Jellyroll Magazine; JMWW; Keyhole; Mad Hatters’ Review; nth position; OCHO; Opium Magazine; PANK; Robot Melon; ServingHouse; Smokelong Quarterly; The 2ndHand; and on Featherproof Books’ TripleQuick Fiction iPhone App.

Thanks to Kevin Sampsell for making this book possible, and to his Future Tense crew: Christina Brauner, Bryan Coffelt, and Brian David Smith.

Thanks to my family: the Iredells and the Babcocks.

Thanks to Christopher Bundy, Mike Dockins, and Man Martin for reading drafts of this book, and to Blake Butler and Spencer, for inadvertently inspiring parts of it.

Of course: Sarah Babcock.