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Some Of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

by Donald Barthelme · 2011

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Includes nine short stories: "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby", "The Glass Mountain", "I Bought a Little City", "The Palace at Four AM", "Chablis", "The School", "Margins", "Game", and "The Balloon".

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2010s2010sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 75 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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