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title	:	Within the Lighted City John Simmons Short Fiction Award
author	:	Lenzo, Lisa.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877456119
print isbn13	:	9780877456117
ebook isbn13	:	9781587291340
language	:	English
subject	City and town life--Michigan--Detroit--Fiction, Detroit (Mich.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	PS3562.E497W57 1997eb
ddc	:	813/.54
subject	:	City and town life--Michigan--Detroit--Fiction, Detroit (Mich.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Page i Within the Lighted City

Page ii The John Simmons Short Fiction Award

Page iii Within the Lighted City Lisa Lenzo University of Iowa Press Iowa City

Page iv University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1997 by Lisa Lenzo All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. This is a work of fiction; any resemblance to actual events or persons is entirely coincidental. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lenzo, Lisa, 1957 Within the lighted city / Lisa Lenzo. p. cm.(John Simmons short fiction award) ISBN 0-87745-611-9 (cloth) 1. City and town lifeMichiganDetroitFiction. 2. Detroit (Mich.)Social life and customsFiction. I. Title. II. Series. PS3562.E497W57 01997 813'.54dc21 97-15908 01 00 99 98 97 c 5 4 3 2 1

Page v for my mother and father

Page vii Contents Stealing Trees 1 The Angel Thomas 11 Burning 18 Self-Defense 34 First Day 50 Waiting 60 Sophie's Shirt 68 The End of the Crackhead 70 Within the Lighted City 77

Page ix Acknowledgments I'd like to thank the following people for their guidance, encouragement, advice, care, and faith: my writing teachers, Charles Baxter, Stuart Dybek, Jaimy Gordon, Arnie Johnston, Jack Ridl, and, in memoriam, Dirk Jellema and Sandra Simon; my fellow writers, Bret Comar, Richard Hefter, and Jane Ruiter; all others who taught me and provided for me at Hope College and Western Michigan University; my editors, Barbara Bonner, Laurence Goldstein, and Mary Hill; all "The Quilters," present and past; my mother and father, Susie and Joe; my daughter Chloe; my ex-husband, Mark; and my brothers and sisters, Amy, Jen, Anthony, Marilyn, Sheri, Kris, Virginia, Peter, Jenni, and Steve. I'd also like to thank Jaimy Gordon, Shirley Scott, and Western Michigan University for providing me with a generous fellowship; my mother and father for being my own personal matron and patron of the arts; and Cherie Giller, Jean Crawford, and the Saugatuck-Douglas Interurban Transit Authority for helping to make paying my mortgage with enough time left to write both possible and enjoyable. These acknowledgments would be incomplete without special thanks to Stuart Dybek, who agented my first published story and has since recommended my work and me many times; his continued advice and encouragement in the years since I was officially his student have been indispensable. Some of the stories in this collection originally appeared in the following magazines and anthologies: "Stealing Trees" in the Michigan Quarterly Review and Sacred

Page x Ground: Writings about Home, "The Angel Thomas" in the Alaska Quarterly Review and The PrePress Awards: A Sampler of Emerging Michigan Writers, "Burning" in Third Coast, and "Self-Defense" in the New England Review. ''Waiting" was broadcast on National Public Radio through the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project. "Stealing Trees" is for Laurence Goldstein. "The Angel Thomas" is for Stuart Dybek. "Burning" is for Bret Comar and Richard Hefter. "Self-Defense" is for Jaimy Gordon. ''First Day" is for my father and mother and for Kris. "Waiting" and "Sophie's Shirt" are for Jane Ruiter and Chloe and in memory of Johnny and Steffie. "The End of the Crackhead" is for Peter. "Within the Lighted City" is for Bret Comar, Stuart Dybek, and Jane Ruiter and for my brothers and sisters.

Page 1 Stealing Tress We started stealing trees after the elms were dead and gone, when the city planted a twig in front of Frank's house. The twig had no branches and no leaves. It was as thin as a car antenna. From Frank's front stoop at dusk it was invisible. So Frank and I started driving around at night and stealing thicker, bigger saplings, ones with branches and lots of leaves. We'd dig them up from the better neighborhoods in northwest Detroit, dump them into the trunk of Frank's Fairlane, and replant them on Frank's front lawn.

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