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Dave Eggers' The Wild Things is available for preorder, in regular hardcover and
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This week we will continue to present teasers from each story published in McSweeney's No. 10. Each day, we will add more until they are all available. Then, we will stop adding them.

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Goodbye to All That
By Harlan Ellison

The Tale of Gray Dick
By Stephen King

The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance
By Michael Chabon

Weaving the Dark
By Laurie King

Private Grave 9
By Karen Joy Fowler

Otherwise Pandemonium
By Nick Hornby

The Case of the Nazi Canary
By Michael Moorcock

Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly
By Dave Eggers

Blood Doesn't Come Out
By Michael Crichton

The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers
By Aimee Bender

Chuck's Bucket
By Chris Offutt

The Albertine Notes
By Rick Moody

How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman
By Elmore Leonard

The General
By Carol Emshwiller

Closing Time
By Neil Gaiman

The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter
By Glen David Gold

Ghost Dance
By Sherman Alexie

Catskin
By Kelly Link

The Bees
By Dan Chaon

Tedford and the Megalodon
By Jim Shepard

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