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With Forked Tongue [MultiFormat]
eBook by Ken Rand
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eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: A political operative picks up a hitchhiker in the remote Utah desert after a rally. The guy, an Indian with a gift for gab, is probably a plant from the opposition camp. But his story is so weird--something about an ancient Indian curse on the whites--that it will likely start tongues wagging on the six o'clock news.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Talebones #4, 1996
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [177 KB], eReader (PDB) [22 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [8 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [9 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [71 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [79 KB], hiebook (KML) [81 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [34 KB], iSilo (PDB) [7 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [9 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [37 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [16 KB]
Words: 2507
Reading time: 7-10 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
I never pick up hitchhikers.
I quit picking up hitchhikers long ago when I quit being a hippie, cut my hair, got a job, got married, had a couple of kids, and got involved in politics. I'm divorced, the kids are gone, and so is most of my hair. I'm not in politics anymore and I started picking up hitchhikers again.
Especially Indians.
It began last summer. At the time, I was on the candidate's campaign staff--You Know Who. I handled things, you might say, in the Utah area, generally. With his usual foot-in-mouth candor, he said something stupid about Indians. You can't get elected president doing things like that. It prompted a protest rally in Wendover, and I went to try to put out the fire.
My boss, of course, was "regretfully unable to attend."
I think I did a good job, considering. I'm a good bullshitter. I got some press and maybe a few votes back in his pocket that he'd pissed away. Sometimes you can't tell.
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