Curtis Edmonds is a writer and attorney living in central New Jersey. His work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Untoward Magazine, Liberty Island, The Big Jewel, Yankee Pot Roast, and National Review Online. His book reviews appear on the Bookreporter website. Other short fiction appears online at his yet-to-be-award-winning website, http: //www.curtisedmonds.com. This is his first novel.