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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Cory returns to her home town in Nebraska in company with her illegal immigrant lover, Tal, whom she is determined to keep out of the hands of INS and an inevitable deportation which, since Tal is a political exile, will undoubtedly get him killed. She doesn't know what to expect when she gets home, but what she finds is both disheartening--the family farm has been seized by the state--and hopeful--she learns something about her family she never knew, something which can help Tal and give her life a new meaning.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Asimov's SF, 1997
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2005

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [256 KB], eReader (PDB) [36 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [24 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [22 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [81 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [94 KB], hiebook (KML) [66 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [50 KB], iSilo (PDB) [19 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [25 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [53 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [36 KB]
Words: 6815
Reading time: 19-27 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED

Cory stared out the car window at the passing farmscape. Wheat, corn, soy, wheat, corn, soy. No mountains. Amber waves but no purple majesty. She smiled wryly, glimpsing her reflection briefly in the window as the road turned and the angle of the light changed. She had gained weight since leaving Nebraska. Mom would be pleased.

"It's beautiful."

Cory looked at Tal. Both hands on the wheel--wide hands, pronounced knuckles--a whimsical smile on his long face as if he were surprised that everything she had told him about her home was, after all, true. He glanced at her and the smile widened.

"And I really did grow up in a two-story white house with gables and a screened porch that wrapped around two sides," she said and tugged playfully at his ear. He laughed.