Kingdomtide. Rye Curtis

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Название Kingdomtide
Автор произведения Rye Curtis
Жанр Контркультура
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      KINGDOMTIDE

      Rye Curtis

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       Copyright

      4th Estate

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2019

      Copyright © Rye Curtis 2020

      Cover design by Jack Smyth

      Rye Curtis asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780008317690

      Ebook Edition © January 2020 ISBN: 9780008317713

      Version: 2019-12-04

       Dedication

       For Mimi

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      I

       I no longer …

       Forest Ranger Debra …

       All was quiet. …

       Lewis, eyes bloodshot …

       Mr. Waldrip and …

       Tuesday morning Lewis …

       Hateful swarms of …

       The pilot swung …

       The day after …

       III

       Koojee. …

       In 1972 a …

       Lewis, naked save …

       Two days of …

       The National Transportation …

       IV

       For three nights …

       In the blue …

       I had made …

       Bloor, carrying a …

       V

       We traveled the …

       The old dog …

       No doubt many …

       Lewis swerved the …

       VI

       A nice young …

       Unclothed, Lewis sank …

       I thought you’d …

       VII

       They sat in …

       I was to …

       The grim figure …

       I do not …

       Lewis goose-stepped over …

       Every fall the …

       VIII

       The carcass of …

       There are all …

       Acknowledgments

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

I

      I no longer pass judgment on any man nor woman. People are people, and I do not believe there is much more to be said on the matter. Twenty years ago I might have been of a different mind about that, but I was a different Cloris Waldrip back then. I might have gone on being that same Cloris Waldrip, the one I had been for seventy-two years, had I not fallen out of the sky in that little airplane on Sunday, August 31, 1986. It does amaze