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    Bird Whisperer
    Bird Whisperer
    Bird Whisperer
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    Bird Whisperer

    By Diane J Cornwell

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    As a five year old failed psychic experiment, Trish was moved from the Keeper Complex to a western slopes human village. But as a teenager, when she accidentally reads the thoughts of the village bully and defends her only friend, the villagers force her out of the village.

    Now all she has to do is survive alone in her cave until the next Keeper visit, so she can report the villagers and stop their extra benefits for raising her, when they are not doing so.

    This Science Fiction short story, Bird Whisperer, is based on Mannuholm, the same world as Diane J Cornwell’s Broken Series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTift Publishing
    Release dateMay 30, 2016
    ISBN9781310568565
    Bird Whisperer
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    Diane J Cornwell

    Diane J Cornwell learnt to read before she started school at the age of five. At school she learnt to write the words she already recognized. She loved going to school. When she was asked to write a story on her holiday activities, Diane wrote a story on what she wanted to do, not what she did, and earned an “A” grade for the homework. That started her on a life of writing fiction.A bi-product of all that reading was creating her own stories about determined characters who try to make the right decisions the first time during their adventures. Stories she can read over and over again just for the pleasure of revisiting the characters.Diane wrote her first full length novel in 2007, and hopes to have many more stories created in the coming years.

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      Bird Whisperer - Diane J Cornwell

      BIRD WHISPERER

      By

      Diane J Cornwell

      BIRD WHISPERER

      By Diane J Cornwell © 2016

      Published by Tift Publishing at Smashwords

      Cover Copyright © 2016 Diane J Cornwell

      This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, incidents qand actions are either products of this author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Bird Whisperer

      About the Author

      Other Titles by Diane J Cornwell

      BIRD WHISPERER

      1

      Fourteen year old Trish looked up at the steep southern slope of the mountain the villagers used for summer grazing while the hot sun burned her skin, but she ignored the heat, along with the rumbles of her stomach, warning her she needed to find food soon. Even the smell of wet soil faded as the midday heat evaporated any moisture captured in crevices of the rocky slope.

      In her mind, she mapped a path around and over boulders to the first ledge, while she studied the slope. Rodents normally frolicked among the rocks, even though she could not see any movement.

      The few insects flew away before she reached the lowest boulders, half buried in the dirt. Even the well established winter growth moss, growing in the shadows on the southern underside of the rocks dissolved to dust when she touched it.

      If she could silently climb further up the slope she might have a chance to catch a rodent or two sheltering in the shade under the rocks at the back of the ledge, before the sun disappeared behind the mountain and the temperature lowered enough for the rodents to leave their shelter to collect grass seeds.

      Her stomach gurgled again. Although she was hungry and weak, she knew now was the time to hunt, while the rodents waited out the midday heat. She reached a thin arm up, located a crack in the rock and slipped her hand in. Her arm took her weight when she tested her grip, so she reached for a second hand hold, then bought her first foot up and found a solid gap to rest her toes.

      None of the villagers bothered to roam south in the middle of the day, so she did not worry about being seen. Instead, she searched for and located the next crack in the rock to grip before she repeated the process. When she climbed over the first boulder, she rested her arms and caught her breath before continuing.

      As Trish climbed, she cursed the closed minds of the villagers who shunned her, and fate for allowing her mind to catch glimpses of what they thought.

      Her bare left foot slipped off the rock and her knee banged against a sharp edge, adding yet another hole in her already threadbare pants.

      She gripped the rock tightly with both hands while she felt for another foot hold, and told herself to focus on the climb.

      It did not work. She again felt anger at the villagers.

      Even if it was her decision to climb the slope to look for rodents, it was the villager who decided to shun her instead of feeding her.

      It was unfair. That thought made her angry again, more angry than when they threw stones at her before she fled the village. The bruises slowly turned yellow and the pain faded, but she remembered.

      She climbed higher, then searched for more hand holds.

      The villager’s actions may have forced her to flee, but she knew her rights. She was the reason they received extra food and other goods as payment for fostering her.

      She was determined to stay alive while living alone in her cave, so she could report their behaviour to the Keepers, those select humans who taught the history of the humans transported to Mannuholm by the alien Elementals. Not that she understand why humans would agree to leave their home paradise and travel to any distant planet.

      Even if she had to wait another three months for the next Keeper visit to report the villagers, she was determined she would survive until then. That thought bought her full circle. If she did not find food soon, she would be too weak to look, and would die long before a Keeper arrived.

      Life was not fair.

      Her palms sweated

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