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Dad [MultiFormat]
eBook by Bud Sparhawk
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eBook Category: Science Fiction Analog Reader's Choice Award Nominee
eBook Description: Jimmy's idyllic life is interupted when a rescue ship arrives. Now he can become a starship pilot like his father. But there is only room for two people on the ship--and both are adults.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Analog, 1993
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2002
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [71 KB], eReader (PDB) [30 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [17 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [16 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [66 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [87 KB], hiebook (KML) [67 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [42 KB], iSilo (PDB) [14 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [18 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [46 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [26 KB]
Words: 5449
Reading time: 15-21 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
 
It had been a glorious break after the planting of the spring crops. Dad and me had dragged the canoe fifteen miles up the river on the pack horse and put it in on a rocky promontory where the river gurgled over a series of riffles before forming a wide basin. We were taking two days away from the chores to meander downstream over the best rapids in the territory, or so I considered them at the time; my fourteen years of life had not given me that much experience, to tell the truth.
The weather was perfect. The air temperature was warm enough that you didn't need even a sweater, as long as you were in the sun, that is. The water was chill from the snow melt higher up in the mountains. You could feel it through the thin plastic bottoms of your shoes. The sky was a beautiful deep blue, dotted with masses of cloud that drifted lazily across the sky. When I looked at one cloud that looked like a starship to my adolescent eyes I felt a sharp stab of pain inside my head and stumbled, nearly dropping the pack I was carrying.
"You all right?" Dad asked. He was carrying the food bag, tent and his own pack and still was able to steady me on the rough footing.
"Sure," I said, not wanting a little headache to upset our plans.
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