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    The Visitors (short story)
    The Visitors (short story)
    The Visitors (short story)
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    The Visitors (short story)

    By Matthew Holley

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    A friendly alien village welcomes strange visitors to their planet but the visitors bring unwelcomed and dangerous visitors of their own.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatthew Holley
    Release dateDec 2, 2011
    ISBN9781465806055
    The Visitors (short story)
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    Matthew Holley

    I live in Englewood, Florida and own a construction business.I'm 42 and just starting to write. I love it! I write for the love of expressing my thoughts and ideas and for the escapism as I enter my make-believe worlds where anything can happen and nothing is out of reach but the limits of my imagination.

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      The Visitors (short story) - Matthew Holley

      CHAPTER ONE

      TOOMOL! TOOMOL! Nuz cried as he rode into the village of Wasache looking for the most intelligent person he knew.

      Toomol stepped outside of the village’s research cabin, after hearing his name called, just in time to see Nuz racing towards him. Nuz jumped off his heavily panting, very exhausted owachi and ran up to Toomol. The young boy was clearly excited about something.

      Toomol, you have to come with me quick! Something fell out of the sky in the Chechala village! Hurry, you must come and see! Nuz demanded as he grabbed Toomol’s hand and started pulling him.

      Okay, Toomol chuckled. I’ll go but let’s take my owachi. Yours looks like it could use a rest.

      Fine, let’s just hurry!

      Toomol and Nuz rode the fifteen clicks to the village of Chechala. They arrived at the location where Nuz said they would find the mysterious object that fell from the sky. A rather large crowd was gathered making it impossible for Toomol to see what they were looking at. He got off his owachi and approached the crowd; his curiosity was growing with each step he

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