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these forces would lead us in the new century? But we remain as pitifully ignorant as her audience, which for many moments could do no more than stare at her ruined hand. They were in shock; many sank as if numbed to their chairs, while others staggered in a daze toward the exits, and only later, much later, would it occur to them that the Fantasy was now lost forever, its score as useless as a mute artifact, or the vaporous relic of a forgotten dream.

About the Author

BEN FOUNTAIN’s fiction has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, and Zeotrope: All-Story, and he has been awarded an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and other honors. He is the fiction editor of Southwest Review and lives with his wife and their two children in Dallas, Texas

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Copyright

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS WITH CHE GUEVARA. Copyright © 2006 by Ben Fountain. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition © JUNE 2007 ISBN: 9780061847622

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Near-Extinct Birds...

Rêve Haitien

The Good Ones Are Already Taken

Asian Tiger

Bouki and the Cocaine

The Lion's Mouth

Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

Fantasy for Eleven Fingers

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Copyright

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