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Story by Sabine HildingColors by Marylou WilhelmWeb version 2021 Oregon
The boy watched as his motherdrove the car back and forth in tiny increments.She was trying to turn around in a single lane. Itwas a dirt road, single file, an old westernwagon trail in the High Desert, somewheresouth near some paleo fossil beds, very far fromhome.He sat, stuffed in the backseat along withpillows, assorted food containers, maps, naturebooks, ice chest, clothes, games, and goodsmelling sage they had gathered for incense.The road straddled a ridge looking outover sagebrush and gullies. It had been a drysummer after a wet spring and the fresh greencheat grass that had come up abundant and fast,had now turned beige and dry in August. Thethick mat of grasses strafed the underside of thecar in a scratchy uneven sound with thumpswhen the rocks popped up.
Page 4 and 5: They were on an educational field t
Page 6 and 7: older kid, and, heaving open the hu
Page 8 and 9: again, too,” she said. “And alo
Page 10 and 11: sobs. What to do? It wasn’t like
Page 12 and 13: His mother stopped sniffling. “I
Page 14 and 15: High up and far away swirled some b
Page 16 and 17: wrestled across the pebbles. Sudden
Page 18 and 19: He looked around and felt alone. He
Page 20 and 21: The Crystal Crane Hot Springs wasn
Page 22 and 23: A flood lamp teaming with moths spa
Page 24 and 25: Don’t make me have to dive down a
Page 26 and 27: mother lay on a cot close by, wrapp
Page 28 and 29: Copyright: © 2012 and 2021 Sabine
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