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Madrelita [MultiFormat]
eBook by Deborah Wheeler
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Set in the same harsh future as "Javier, Dying in the Land of Flowers", "Madrelita" is the story of Clarida, a young woman who earns a percarious living taking care of the children of wealthy families. And although her young charges call her "Mama Clari", Clarida knows that she serves at the whim of her patrona and can easily be replaced.
eBook Publisher: Rosetta Solutions, Inc., Published: 1998
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2001
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [116 KB], eReader (PDB) [53 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [25 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [23 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [105 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [96 KB], hiebook (KML) [105 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [107 KB], iSilo (PDB) [21 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [26 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [81 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [38 KB]
Words: 7200
Reading time: 20-28 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 filmy sunscreen-canopy that stretched from wall to wall across the West City Children's Park rippled in the offshore wind, as if it were alive, straining at its brightly colored geodesic struts. The filtered light turned the sand in the digging pits velvety, and the slides and swings glowed softly with new paint.
Under a dwarf tree, gone dormant from years of ruthless pruning, Clarida Alvarez sat crocheting a child's sweater in buttercup acrylic yarn while keeping watch on two-year-old Kaitlin. She looped the bone hook in and out, forming row after row of intricate, lacy stitches. Sometimes her hands worked so fast they didn't seem to belong to her, the fuzzy yellow yarn wrapped around the coffee-colored fingers, the blue tracery of the ligata tattoo on her left wrist. Null-ligata, never been pregnant.
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