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When Coyote Came to Town [MultiFormat]
eBook by Diana L. Paxson
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eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: Every new person changes things in a town, if only a little bit. But when the person is Coyote, the changes will probably be big--and not what anyone might have expected.
eBook Publisher: Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust, Published: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Worlds, 1998
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2008
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [185 KB], eReader (PDB) [21 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [16 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [15 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [64 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [86 KB], hiebook (KML) [67 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [45 KB], iSilo (PDB) [13 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [17 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [47 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [26 KB]
Words: 4922
Reading time: 14-19 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
 
The old man came to town on the first hot day of summer, when the dust lay thick on the road and the cicadas sang in the ripening grass. A dull haze covered the great valley, veiling the mountains of the Sierra and the coastal hills so that the town seemed to float, disconnected from the world. It was pretty well true. The terrible times of the Cataclysm were past, and the Old Powers, having destroyed most of the works of man, didn't seem to care what we did in the space they had left to us. These days nothing ever happened here except when Captain Jack came with his men, and that was the kind of excitement, my father said, that we didn't need. The stranger appeared at the edge of town, just outside Ben Nunez's wagon shop. Before the Cataclysm, the shop had been kept busy repairing the machines that broke down on the road. That was when Ma was a little girl and Ben a young man. Now he spent most of his time watching the road, waiting for business that never came. Sometimes when Ma couldn't catch me for chores I would go down there and wander about, curling up in the dusty upholstery of the old cars and wondering about the people who used to sit there and the places they had traveled to. I guess we all spent a lot of time looking backward, and why not? There was nothing to look forward to that I could see.
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