Whitney Collins - Big Bad - Stories

The Gateway Review , “Big Bad,” Editor’s Choice Award

Ninth Letter , “Drawers”

The Pinch , “The Entertainer,” 2020 Pushcart Prize Winner

New Limestone Review , “Daddy-o”

Grist , “The Pupil,” 2020 Pushcart Prize Special Mention

Quarter After Eight , “Stone Fruit”

Solidago Journal , “Three Couches”

Pamplemousse , “Lonelyhearts” (originally titled “Ms. Lonelyhearts”)

Raleigh Review , “Good Guys”

The Laurel Review , “The Horse Lamp”

Shirley Magazine , “Bjorn”

WHITNEY COLLINS received a 2020 Pushcart Prize, a 2020 Pushcart Special Mention, and won the 2020 American Short(er) Fiction Prize. Her stories have appeared in Catapult’s Tiny Nightmares anthology, American Short Fiction, AGNI, Slice, Shenandoah, New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, The Southeast Review, Grist, The Pinch , and The Chattahoochee Review , among others. She received her MFA from Spalding University and lives in Kentucky with her family.

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Copyright © 2021 by Whitney Collins

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Collins, Whitney, MFA, author.

Title: Big bad : stories / by Whitney Collins.

Description: First edition. | Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, 2021

Identifiers: LCCN 2020016783 (print) | LCCN 2020016784 (e-book) ISBN 9781946448729 (paperback) | ISBN 9781946448736 (e-book)

Subjects: LCGFT: Short stories.

Classification: LCC PS3603.O45633 B55 2021 (print) LCC PS3603.O45633 (e-book) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020016783

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020016784

Cover and interior design by Alban Fischer.

Printed in Canada.

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

Sarabande Books is a nonprofit literary organization.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports Sarabande Books with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.