The Strangers We Meet
By Ann Stratton
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In this collection you will meet a youth on the cusp of his manhood, and someone he meets along the way; find out what a rat and his person will do to protect their home against strangers; discover why it’s so hard to leave when you can’t find the door; visit citrus hell in search of a lost man; receive a note no one remembers writing or delivering. Ever have one of those days?
Ann Stratton
Ann Stratton started writing at age thirteen with the usual results. After a long stint in fan fiction, honing her skills, she hopes she has gotten better since then. She lives in Southeastern Arizona, trying to juggle all her varied interests.
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The Strangers We Meet - Ann Stratton
The Strangers We Meet
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Ann Stratton
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Copyright © 2017 Ann Stratton
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Disclaimer
This is a work of fiction, a product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance or similarity to any actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Credits
Editing, formatting, and cover design by Ann Stratton
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Waiting for God
Cahdi stands where no one can see him, in the deep grasslands, where the saw edged grass stands taller than he. He holds the tools and weapons he will wield when he returns to his family a manHH. He will stand here until the god comes and gives him his name. It is a rite every male must go through upon puberty, to take his place among the men of the grasslands.
Cahdi waits with anticipation, excitement, and dread. He wonders what the god will look like. Everyone describes something different. Pola, who stood here just last month, described a chariot of glory and light that blinded him until the god put His hands on his shoulders.
Domen said the god was a mouse, one of the little striped jumpers that collected seeds in the tall grass roots. Everyone laughed at him until Grandfather Yarro hit them all over the head with his stick and told them they had dishonored the god with their disrespect.
The god is in all things,
he said. We all see the god as He wills it, not as we wish. The little jumping mouse is the same as the burning chariot and just as true. To ridicule Domen is to dishonor the god.
And now it is Cahdi’s turn to stand in the grasslands, waiting for the god to arrive. He wonders how the god will show Himself. Will He appear in glory, as Pola described, or will He creep in, as small and humble as Domen said? To see the god as an ordinary thing implied that the seeker would never amount to anything great. That’s not entirely true of course; some of the tribe’s greatest men saw the god in ordinary things. Still, true or false, the perception remains. Cahdi surveys the sky, wondering if the hawk soaring overhead is the god, watching him.
The day is long and the sun is hot. Cahdi tries to conserve his water, but he drinks the last of it not long after noon. He wonders if he dare go to refill his canteen. What if the god comes