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mother lay on a cot close by, wrapped in thecocoon of her bag.He could hear coyotes yipping out on thedesert. He thought of the museum group sittingdown now to roast wienies and tell campfirestories. He wondered if they had found anyfossils. Chris had warned them about cougars.He wondered if they had seen any tracks orheard a cougar scream.Distantly, he heard the coyotes acceleratingto a yipping frenzy. They must have corneredsomething. Maybe a rabbit or a ground squirrel.
He imagined animals hunting in cold andsnow as well as on clear, balmy nights. Thedesert out there carried on and didn’t sleep justbecause he did. It came alive at night. And thewind and dust would be blowing even when hewas back in town in the summer art class.He thought of the desert ants out foragingfor food in long lines, grabbing any insect theycould find, raiding other colony nests intremendous battles.As he drifted into sleep, in his mind’s eye,he saw a black ant with a red ant head stillattached to its mandible, and then all the animalshe had seen that day, their lively shapes like cutoutpuppet shadows, the grasses moving to theirstriving.
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Page 18 and 19: He looked around and felt alone. He
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