Excerpt from Minna Pegeen Chapter Four

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Minna Pegeen

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Excerpt from Minna Pegeen Chapter Three

Excerpt from

Minna Pegeen

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ISBN 9781935361381

Excerpt from Minna Pegeen Chapter Two

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Minna Pegeen

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Comfort Publishing

ISBN 9781935361381

Excerpt from Minna Pegeen Chapter One

Excerpt from

Minna Pegeen

© Evelyn Rainey

Comfort Publishing

ISBN 9781935361381

All the forces of the universe strained between the two companions, whether to restrain or to encourage, she was not sure.

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When you have lost something you cherish, it is tempting to lose yourself.

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He chose the burden rather than the trial.

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Plains folks view things differently than mountain or sea folks. They serve different gods and have no honor.

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Druce drifted into sleep again while Pegeen guarded his dreams.

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Could a man really love a woman so much? One word, one phrase from her lips, and they would be changed forever.

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Who taught you how to catch that stick by the unburned end?

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Certain things you learn in this life. These things help you survive. I believe they become a part of you.

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Mother World of Returning. Green of Dusk. Autumn of Time. North of the World. Salt to bind and protect.

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Fire of Mating. Yellow yields to Red of Dawn. Summer of Time. South of the World. Candle to draw Power.

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Air of Breathing. Yellow of Day. Spring of Time. East of the World.

Key to Open.

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Water of Beginnings. Blue of Night. Winter of Time. West of the World. Cup to Bear Life.

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It sounds like you will buy my goat if I pay you for it.

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How easy it is to pledge your soul, thought the old man, but how tormenting it can be to keep it. 

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A Cluster of Branches

by Evelyn Rainey

Gray tendrils,

Laid barren by the Fall,

Swaying gently in the cruel wind,

Fake slumber and patiently wait.

Phloem and xylem stir sluggishly

As the cells drink Summer’s wages.

Naked under bitter Winter’s skies,

They give evidence of hope for Spring.

Reiterations of Nature’s design

For rivers and dendrites and split ends.

The eye knows the lonely, fragile, dying limbs;

Yet the heart sees their graceful subliminal youth.

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He marveled how the candlelight danced in the recesses of her pupils.

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