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eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: Tribal hostility, a stolen bride. Will the end bring dramatic rescue or consummation?

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Bittersweet Symphony Anthology, 2005
Fictionwise Release Date: September 2005

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [165 KB], eReader (PDB) [21 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [7 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [7 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [71 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [78 KB], hiebook (KML) [77 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [34 KB], iSilo (PDB) [6 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [7 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [35 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [14 KB]
Words: 1843
Reading time: 5-7 min.
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VILLAGE DRUMS vibrated in a booming cantata: Pom! Pi! Po pom pi! The Abafazi celebrated their new bride, their bare gyrating torsos gleaming with rich animal fat.

Our son has found a maiden!

A pure gift from the water nymph,

None fairer than she stands.

A wonder for all to see.

They danced, a swish of sisal skirts here, a graceful sway of neck there. And the feet! Caked with red dust, their toes tapped on the earth in perfect sync to the beat. Their heels made powered ostrich loops. A fresh spray of soil escaped from the broken ground, slowly rising into the air. It formed a faint cloud of auburn powder that danced into the horizon and mingled with the chanting.