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    The Wild One
    The Wild One
    The Wild One
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    The Wild One

    By Marion Zimmer Bradley

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    This is a story that they tell on the solitary farms on the borders of the Catskill mountains, where I grew up. It is a mistake to think that country is settled and modern, just because the big highways stretch from city to city, and the factories hold out clean jobs that pay better than the scratch-the-soil farming on shale rock. For between every farm is a stretch of woodland, and every farm has its own woods, and by night there are deer and rabbits and even wolves and the big lynxes that prowl south of Canada in a hungry season. And every now and again, to some lonely farm-girl who roams the edges and center of the deep woods by night, a child will be born like Helma Lassiter . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateMar 10, 2016
    ISBN9781682999646
    The Wild One
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    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Marion Zimmer Bradley is the creator of the popular Darkover universe, as well as the critically acclaimed author of the bestselling ‘The Mists of Avalon’ and its sequel, ‘The Forest House’. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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      The Wild One - Marion Zimmer Bradley

      The Wild One

      by Marion Zimmer Bradley

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

      Cover image © craig Cloutier

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-68299-964-6

      This is a story that they tell on the solitary farms on the borders of the Catskill mountains, where I grew up. It is a mistake to think that country is settled and modern, just because the big highways stretch from city to city, and the factories hold out clean jobs that pay better than the scratch—the—soil farming on shale rock. For between every farm is a stretch of woodland, and every farm has its own woods, and by night there are deer and rabbits and even wolves and the big lynxes that prowl south of Canada in a hungry season. And every now and again, to some lonely farm—girl who roams the edges and center of the deep woods by night, a child will be born like Helma Lassiter . . .

      Roger Lassiter lifted his hands abruptly from the keys of die piano, and stared across the room at his sobbing young wife.

      Helma, dear! he said contritely, If I’d known—I didn’t hear you come in, dear. Please forgive me?

      Of course! Helma wiped away her tears, and her strange, hesitant smile flickered for an instant on the wet face, "If I’d known you wanted to play, I wouldn’t

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