title: 13 Pieces: Short Stories and Poetry
author: Dawn LaBuy-Brockett
description: Dawn LaBuy-Brockett is a music composer, playwright, and published author. Her birthday is April Fools' Day. Doesn't that explain just about everything?
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  **Table of Contents**
  
   _Title Page_
  
   _About the Author_
  
   _Copyright Page_
  
   _Dedication_
  
   _Acknowledgments_
  
    
  
  Chapter One - General Observations on Quadrupeds
  
  Chapter Two - In the Bathtub, Singing
  
  Chapter Three - An Eggcup of Salt Water
  
  Chapter Four - Enough Clouds for a Spectacular Sunset
  
  Chapter Five - The Wrong Door
  
  Chapter Six - Seventeen Gates
  
  Chapter Seven - Mr. Rivers
  
  Chapter Eight - Like Samson I Will Not Cut My Hair
  
  Chapter Nine - Kit
  
  Chapter Ten - Fish and a Rose-Patterned Teacup
  
  Chapter Eleven - Balaam and Balak
  
  Chapter Twelve - Diana and Juno
  
  Chapter Thirteen - The Birthday and Broken Glass
  
  Chapter Fourteen - The End of Us All
  
  Chapter Fifteen - Maybe Tomorrow
  
  Chapter Sixteen - Miss Landau
  
  Chapter Seventeen - Black Dogs and White Gloves
  
  Chapter Eighteen - The Anna
  
  Chapter Nineteen - Witch-Stones
  
  Chapter Twenty - A Gull on the Horizon
  
  Chapter Twenty-one - My Name Is Alice
  
  Chapter Twenty-two - Run, Rabbit, Run
  
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