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Hart and Boot [MultiFormat]
eBook by Tim Pratt
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eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description:  A magical secret history about Pearl Hart, the last stage coach robber in the Old West, and her mysterious lover, John Boot. Originally published in the acclaimed Polyphony anthology series.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Polyphony 4, 2004
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2004
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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: eReader (PDB) [34 KB]
, ePub (EPUB) [37 KB]
, Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [20 KB]
, Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [239 KB]
, Palm Doc (PDB) [21 KB]
, Microsoft Reader (LIT) [79 KB]
, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [91 KB]
, hiebook (KML) [58 KB]
, Sony Reader (LRF) [52 KB]
, iSilo (PDB) [17 KB]
, Mobipocket (PRC) [22 KB]
, Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [50 KB]
, OEBFF Format (IMP) [33 KB]
Words: 6591
Reading time: 18-26 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
The man's head and torso emerged from a hole in the ground, just a few feet from the rock where Pearl Hart sat smoking her last cigarette. His appearance surprised her, and she cussed him at some length. The man stared at her during the outpouring of profanity, his mild face smeared with dirt, his body still half-submerged. Pearl stopped cussing and squinted at him in the fading sunlight. He didn't have on a shirt, and Pearl, being Pearl, wondered immediately if he was wearing pants.
"Who the hell are you?" she demanded. She'd been sitting for hours here on the outskirts of a Kansas mining town, waiting for dark, so she could find a bar and a man to buy her drinks. She was in a foul mood lately, as her plans for a life of riotous adventure had thus far come to nothing. She'd fled a teenage marriage in Canada after seeing a Wild West show, complete with savage Indians and lady sharpshooters, and come west to seek her fortune among such fierce characters. Her career as an outlaw was not going well so far. The problem, of course, was men. The problem was always men, and the fact that she enjoyed many male qualities didn't change that fact. Seeing a man now, uninvited and interrupting her brooding, made her angry enough to spit in a sidewinder's eye. "What're you doing in the ground?"
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