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Shot

Joyce Carol Oates

First published September 1992
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A girl keeps hearing a dog barking from her house. When she follows the sound, she finds a dog cruelly chained and has a highly disturbing encounter with the woman who keeps him.

First published in the magazine Seventeen, June 1990.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1992 Cover Where Is Here? Ecco Press Collection 89
March 2003 Cover Small Avalanches and Other Stories HarperTempest Collection 171
March 2004 Cover Small Avalanches and Other Stories HarperTempest Collection 171