TY - BOOK AU - Buckler Ernest AU - Dvorak Marta TI - Thanks for listening: stories and short fictions SN - 0889204381 : AV - PR9199.3.B763 U1 - C813/.54 PY - 2004/// CY - Waterloo, Ont. PB - Wilfred Laurier University Press KW - Country life KW - Fiction KW - Short stories, Canadian N1 - The balance -- A present for Miss Merriam -- The clumsy one -- The harness -- Just like everyone else -- Cleft rock, with spring -- The wild goose -- The Quarrel -- Goodbye, Prince -- It was always like that -- The first born son -- Return trip to Christmas -- The locket -- The choice -- Thanks for listening -- Glance in the mirror -- Another Christmas -- No matter who's there -- The Christmas order -- Penny in the dust -- The finest tree -- The dream and the triumph -- The bars and the bridge -- Long, long after school -- Humble pie -- Nettles into orchids -- The doctor and the patient -- You could go anywhere now -- The snowman -- The orchard -- Why must it sound like a cowboy song? -- The widow -- Muse in overalls -- Education at Mimi's -- Squares -- Children ER -