Enid Shomer - Imaginary Men (John Simmons Short Fiction Award)
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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 1993 by Enid Shomer
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized 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
Shomer, Enid. Imaginary men/Enid Shomer. p. cm.(John Simmons short fiction award) ISBN 0-87745-399-3 I. Title. II. Series. PS3569.H578314 1993 813'. 54dc20 92-34204 CIP
97 96 95 94 93 c 5 4 3 2 1
Page v
For Nirah and for Oren
Page vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts and to the Florida Arts Council for fellowships which helped to support me during the writing of these stories.
Acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications in which these stories have appeared:
Florida Review: "Taking Names"
Midstream: "Tropical Aunts" and "Street Signs"
New Letters: "Goldring among the Cicadas"
New Yorker: "Disappeared"
Orlando Sentinel (in the Sunday supplement, Florida Magazine): "Companion Planting"
Plainswoman: "Stony Limits"
Woman's World/Woman's Weekly: "Imaginary Men"
Zelo: "The Problem with Yosi" (under the title "A Solution for Yosi")
"On the Boil" won the H. E. Francis Fiction Award offered by the Ruth Hindman Foundation as well as the Iowa Woman Fiction Prize. It appeared in Hometown Press and Iowa Woman and has also been reprinted in the anthology Lovers (Crossing Press, 1992).
"Street Signs" is included in New Directions in Prose & Poetry 55 (New York: New Directions Press, 1991).
"Tropical Aunts" has been reprinted in NEW VISIONS: Fiction by Florida Writers (Tampa: Arbiter Press, 1989).
Page ix
CONTENTS
In the Family
Street Signs
3
Tropical Aunts
16
Goldring among the Cicadas
29
Her Michelangelo
45
On the Land
Taking Names
69
Imaginary Men
74
Stony Limits
88
The Problem with Yosi
101
Companion Planting
112
Disappeared
125
On the Boil
138
Page 1
IN THE FAMILY
Page 3
Street Signs
My brother, Beryl, was eleven when he decided to change his name. The kids at school had taunted him about it for years, insisting it sounded like a girl's name or a kind of fruit. Raspberyl, blueberyl, blackberyl. My parents were reluctant to agree: he was the only namesake for my mother's Great Uncle Beryl, a man famous for overturning with his bare arms a wagonful of Cossacks who had called him a Jew-dog and ordered him off the road. The story went that when the Cossacks came looking for him in the village the next day, even the gentiles lied to protect him. This all happened in the Ukraine, in the dim ages before we spoke English.
"Pick a name that begins with 'B,' all right?" my mother said. "Maybe Bruce?"
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