title: On Imagination (Quarternote Chapbook Series)
author:  Mary Ruefle 
description: <div>Mary Ruefle is the author of <I>Trances of the Blast</I> (Wave Books, 2013), <I>Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures</I> (Wave Books, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and <I>Selected Poems</I> (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has published ten books of poetry, a book of prose (<I>The Most of It</I>, Wave Books, 2008), and a comic book, <I>Go Home and Go to Bed!</I>, (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics, 2007); she is also an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and published in <I>A Little White Shadow</I> (Wave Books, 2006). Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Robert Creeley Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.</div>
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  # Sweet Temptation
  
  
  ## A Club Temptation Novella
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Jen Talty
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [SWEET TEMPTATION](part0002.html#1T140-a628050227be486797c1039db27f3207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0005.html#4OIQ0-a628050227be486797c1039db27f3207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0006.html#5N3C0-a628050227be486797c1039db27f3207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0007.html#6LJU0-a628050227be486797c1039db27f3207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0008.html#7K4G0-a628050227be486797c1039db27f3207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 5](part0009.html#8IL20-a628050227be486797c1039db27f3207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 6](part0010.html#9H5K0-a628050227be486797c1039db27f3207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 7](part0011.html#AFM60-a628050227be486797c1039db27f3207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 8](part0012.html#BE6O0-a628050227be486797c1039db27f3207)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 9](part0013.html#CCNA0-a628050227be486797c1