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title	:	Western Electric John Simmons Short Fiction Award
author	:	Zancanella, Don.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877455678
print isbn13	:	9780877455677
ebook isbn13	:	9781587292613
language	:	English
subject	American fiction.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	PS3576.A49W47 1996eb
ddc	:	813/.54
subject	:	American fiction.

Page i Western Electric

Page ii The John Simmons Short Fiction Award

Page iii Western Electric Don Zancanella University of Iowa Press Iowa City

Page iv The publication of this book is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., a federal agency. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright (c) 1996 by Don Zancanella 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 Zancanella, Don, 1954 Western Electric / Don Zancanella. p. cm.(John Simmons short fiction award) Contents: Disarmament Refugees Thomas Edison by moonlight Nativity Cynthia rising The electric evangelist The chimpanzees of Wyoming Television lies. ISBN 0-87745-567-8 I. Title. II. Series. PS3576.A46W47 1996 813'.54-dc20 96-23454 CIP 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 C 5 4 3 2 1

Page v For Dorene

Page vii Contents Disarmament 1 Refugees 13 Thomas Edison by Moonlight 41 Nativity 56 Cynthia Rising 71 The Electric Evangelist 87 The Chimpanzees of Wyoming 100 Television Lies 113

Page ix Acknowledgments Some of the stories in this collection appeared, in slightly different form, in the following publications: "Disarmament," Prairie Schooner; "Thomas Edison by Moonlight," New Letters; ''Nativity," Mid-American Review; "Cynthia Rising," Descant; "The Electric Evangelist,'' Wind; "The Chimpanzees of Wyoming," Alaska Quarterly Review; "Television Lies," Cottonwood.

Page 1 Disarmament North of Cheyenne, 1977 Each summer morning, Rose saddled the chestnut mare and rode west from her cabin on the Pratt ranch and across the dew-soaked meadows. When she reached the last fence line, she passed through the gate, left the green hayfields, and cantered her horse into the dry scrub-brush prairie where the missile silos squatted like flat gray rocks in the sun. There were four of them, ominous-looking concrete octagons encircled by high wire fences. She chose that route because the land was open and the riding easy, but she sometimes wondered how many missiles were housed in each silo, or how many soldiers manned each station, or even what it would be like to see one fire out from the

Page 2 treeless land. Most often, though, she tried to ignore their presence as Harold Pratt had advised when she rented the cabin for that first summer, three years ago. "They've been here for twenty years," he said. "You might see a government truck pass by once in a while, but even that's rare. You'll forget they exist." And so she rode among the silos as if they were sandstone bluffs or thickets of cedar, natural features upon the open Wyoming plains. During the winter Rose taught second grade in Cheyenne, one hundred miles to the south. When school let out, she packed her bags and retreated to the prairie to the two-room cabin she'd come upon in a newspaper ad, there to spend her summers on horseback. Though she often traveled into town for a movie or invited friends to the cabin for the weekends, she cherished the solitude, with her horse and two cats, at the end of a rough dirt road. So it was that Captain Fetterman's arrival on the cabin porch on an unusually cold morning in early September caused Rose to look at the round-faced visitor as if he were a man from Mars. "I wanted to know who lives in this house." He said it clumsily, as though speaking in a language just learned. Rose held her orange cat in her arms and stared at the large features of his face and the sharp crease of his clean blue trousers. "We're neighbors," he continued. "I work in the silos. Sometimes I watch you ride your horse."

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