title: Dead Boys: Stories
author:  Richard Lange 
description: Richard Lange's stories have appeared in <i>StoryQuarterly</i>, <i>The Sun</i>, <i>The Iowa Review</i> and <i>Best American Mystery Stories 2004</i>. He lives in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>. <br />
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  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
  similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended
  by the author.
  
  First 47North edition, August 2012  
  Text copyright © 2011 Katherine Amt Hanna
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or
  transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
  recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.
  
  Published by 47North  
  P.O. Box 400818  
  Las Vegas, NV 89140
  
  ISBN-13: 9781612184111  
  ISBN-10: 1612184111
  
  
  
  
  
  For Mark and the boys
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  [PROLOGUE](Breakdown_split_005.html#filepos5033)
  
  [CHAPTER 1](Breakdown_split_007.html#filepos12280)
  
  [CHAPTER 2](Breakdown_split_008.html#filepos26617)
  
  [CHAPTER 3](Breakdown_split_009.html#filepos51976)
  
  [CHAPTER 4](Breakdown_split_010.html#filepos73369)
  
  [CHAPTER 5](Breakdown_split_011.html#file