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Good Neighbors
Good Neighbors
Good Neighbors
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Deputy Colleen "CeeCee" Connor thinks she has seen it all, serving and protecting the people in her rural county in Washington state—until she flattens some thing with her squad car—some thing that looks like a miniature human being and groans like a creature in pain. As Connor races to town to get help for the being, she learns things are going haywire all over the county: It's raining cats, dogs, and salmon (literally) in Home Valley, Bigfoot is walking through town, and now three children have disappeared into a new cave on Fairy Hill. To make matters worse, the town and all its inhabitants are cut off from the rest of the world, threatening their survival. It’s up to CeeCee Connor to save her town and all its residents, the human and unhuman.

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Release dateJul 1, 2013
ISBN9781301090792
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Kim Antieau

Kim Antieau is the author of Mercy, Unbound. She lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest.

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    Good Neighbors - Kim Antieau

    Good Neighbors

    Deputy Colleen CeeCee Connor thinks she has seen it all, serving and protecting the people in her rural county in Washington state—until she flattens some thing with her squad car—some thing that looks like a miniature human being and groans like a creature in pain. As Connor races to town to get help for the being, she learns things are going haywire all over the county: It's raining cats, dogs, and salmon (literally) in Home Valley, Bigfoot is walking through town, and now three children have disappeared into a new cave on Fairy Hill. To make matters worse, the town and all its inhabitants are cut off from the rest of the world, threatening their survival. It’s up to CeeCee Connor to save her town and all its residents, the human and unhuman. 

    Good Neighbors

    Kim Antieau

    Published by Green Snake Publishing

    Copyright (c) 2013 by Kim Antieau

    Originally appeared in Space and Time Fall 2011

    Cover image copyright (c) by Kim Antieau

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    Good Neighbors

    Kim Antieau

    IT RAINED CATS and dogs the day Colleen CeeCee Conner struck some thing with her squad car. The sky was still clear blue when she pulled onto the gravel shoulder of Highway 14 to find out what she had hit.

    Connor stopped the car but didn’t get out right away. She watched a pair of bald eagles tumbling in the thermals above the gorge cliffs on the other side of the river. The cliffs always reminded her of a line of gigantic angular faces, like the Easter Island stone people—only these were all squished together and jockeying for the best views.

    CeeCee drove up and down this gorge nearly every day and often wished the stone giants would open their mouths and share their wisdom. They’d been growing up out of the Earth forever, so they had to know something, didn’t they? Most days, CeeCee felt like she knew nothing, had no wisdom at all. She kept pretending because her kid needed her to know a little and the public needed her to keep the peace.

    One of the stone faces winked at CeeCee.

    She rubbed her eyes. Man. It had been a long day already and it was not even noon. Part of Duncan Hill had slid away into Rock Creek yesterday. Geologists had figured it was bound to happen sooner or later. Looked like sooner was it. Too many people had gotten lost in the woods this weekend, claiming that wild animals were talking to them. The part about the animals talking to them was new. Too many drunks complained about aliens doing experiments on them. That was not new. Skamania attracted weirdos by the baker’s

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