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Don Ysidro [MultiFormat]
eBook by Bruce Holland Rogers
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eBook Category: Fantasy World Fantasy Award Nominee
eBook Description: A small Mexican village has rediscovered the pot-making skills of their ancestors. They have also revived some other ancient customs, and some of the tourists who come to the village to buy pots may be going home with much more than they realize.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Polyphony Volume 3, ed. Deborah Layne and Jay Lake, 2003
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2004
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [158 KB], eReader (PDB) [19 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [4 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [5 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [55 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [74 KB], hiebook (KML) [21 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [31 KB], iSilo (PDB) [4 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [5 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [33 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [10 KB]
Words: 1482
Reading time: 4-5 min.
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On that last morning, anyone who came to visit me could see that I was dying. I knew it myself. As if I had cotton in my ears, I heard the voice of don Leandro saying to my wife, "Doņa Susana, I think it is time to fetch the priest," and I thought, yes, it's time. We don't have our own priest, or even our own church, so someone has to drive in a pickup truck to get the priest from El Puentecito. But don't be fooled by what you may hear in Malpasa or in Palpan de Baranda. Here we remain Catholic. Yes, we make pots in the old way. That's why tourists come here. And it's true, as is sometimes whispered, that we have restored certain other practices from the past. But not as they were done back then. Those were bloody and terrible times, the times of the Mejica. They say that the sacrificial blood covered the sun pyramids from top to bottom. Thank the Virgin, we don't do anything like that.
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