Dathan Auerbach - Penpal

Jamie Stephens, you are a beautiful person. Thank you for listening to my ideas and helping me with every step.

Thank you, Carolyn Nowak, for providing your talents as an illustrator for the promotional cards for this project. You do amazing work. ( www.carolyncnowak.com)

Brian Gowin, you saw what I could not see. Thank you for lending me your sharp eye and catching my mistakes.

Thank you, Mercedes Krimme, for your feedback and help.

Lee Wasdin, thank you for your contribution to this project and to my life; both are better off for it.

Jocelyn Michaud, thank you for your limitless patience and exceptional skill in working with me to format the interior of this book.

To the “NoSleep” community of reddit.com — you pushed me to where I otherwise might not have gone. Were it not for your endless support, encouragement, questions, and praise, I feel confident in saying that this book would not exist. I thank each of you from the bottom of my heart.

Were it not for your assistance,

this project would have buried me.

AwesomeJamie

Philip Foord

Cody T. Smith

Panji “Gooner” Wisesa

Conrad Pankoff

Meghan Spector

Barbara Boyd

Garrett B. Donleycott

Adam “Gaunten” Nilsson

Mark Thomas McLaughlin

Thomas Polakovics

Colin Arnoldus

Scott Christopher Morris

Mat Jenkins

Janet Amemiya

Adam Rains

Courtney Lee Mollison

Brian Ellis

Copyright © 2012 by Dathan Auerbach

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by 1000Vultures.

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Title fonts by Chris Au (www.chrisau-design.co.uk)

Interior layout design & typography by Jocelyn Michaud

( www.chezjocelyn.com; jmichaud@uga.edu)

Cover design by D. R. Tuzzeo ( d.r.tuzzeo@gmail.com)