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    That Day in the Desert: A Storyteller Tale
    That Day in the Desert: A Storyteller Tale
    That Day in the Desert: A Storyteller Tale
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    That Day in the Desert: A Storyteller Tale

    By Carol Holland March

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    A romantic fantasy of finding love on interpenetrating worlds
    If Larreta is your destiny, you will find your way to a portal.

    Valerie finds herself on Larreta, but it looks so much like California, she doesn’t believe a word anyone says. Leo knows his chance for love has come and gone, but when he meets Valerie, the beautiful newcomer makes him wonder if there are second chances.

    As the Storyteller begins her tales of the dreamwalkers of Larreta, Valerie and Leo are thrown together to forge their destinies on what looks like a perfect world. But as Valerie learns about Larreta, she discovers not everything is as it seems.

    That Day in the Desert is the first tale of the dreamwalkers of Larreta, a romantic fantasy that spans worlds and time, an adventure of eternal beings who must overcome the legacy of their journey into the human world so they can reclaim their heritage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarol Holland March
    Release dateJul 8, 2016
    ISBN9781310253690
    That Day in the Desert: A Storyteller Tale
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    Carol Holland March

    Carol Holland March lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she writes about the intersection of dreams, reality, and time. She sets her speculative fiction in locations where the veil is thinnest. She teaches classes on writing and creativity at the University of New Mexico and blogs at CarolHollandMarch.com.Her newest release is a nonfiction book, When Spirit Whispers, the first in a planned series on Healing from Trauma.

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      That Day in the Desert - Carol Holland March

      That Day in the Desert

      A Storyteller Tale

      Carol Holland March

      That Day in the Desert

      A Storyteller Tale

      Carol Holland March

      Copyright © 2016 Carol Holland March

      Published by Compass Rose Press

      Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

      Cover Design by pro ebook covers

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without the express permission of the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Please share this book with your friends.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.

      "That Day in the Desert" was originally published by bosque, the magazine, as The Dreamwalkers of Larreta, 2012.

      Dedication

      To the Storyteller of Verdallon

      Table of Contents

      Analia

      The Dreamwalkers of Larreta

      That Day in the Desert

      The Coast House

      Leo

      A Note from the Author

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      Analia

      Analia opened her eyes. High clouds scudded across an azure sky. Near a window, a chair shaped like a red tulip shimmered.

      She moved to sit up and found herself entangled in soft white fibers that laced over her legs and chest. Shaking them off, she rose. She had fallen asleep on a long sofa that resembled an elaborate white chrysanthemum, a genus that grew on her home world. Of course. Verdallon. Finally, she had arrived and this elegant private residence was her gift from the Mentors.

      Analia gazed around the room. She had dreamed the furnishings into existence, and this room had manifested as she’d planned, round with diamond-shaped windows stretching from floor to ceiling. Outside, new grass had sprung up in the garden. Circular flowerbeds were coming to life and young trees swayed. A sandstone wall circled the house and garden.

      Analia scanned the room again. The ceiling was painted to resemble summer clouds, the furniture fashioned in the shape and colors of flowers from Earth, the polished floor shining like amber-colored marble. Sunlight poured in through the windows.

      But something disturbed the silence. She tilted her head and listened. Someone approached. Beings were coming from two directions.

      In her mind’s eye, she viewed the path that led to her home from the distant main road. Along it traveled a familiar energy signature and others she did not recognize. Nara was coming and bringing guests, but why so soon?

      Irritation bubbled up in Analia’s chest, causing her to catch her breath. She had looked forward to a period of solitude before assuming her new duties. Instead, the question at hand was, how would she entertain her first guests?

      They were coming to congratulate her, no doubt. Still, there must be another reason for the arrival of off-world guests. Another twinge of annoyance pricked her forehead. Analia smiled at the persistence of her human emotions.

      The approaching guests were not the only problem. From the other direction, she sensed Leo, although how he found his way to her home was a mystery. Him, she must deal with first. As she pondered how to do that, the red rug in the center of the room sighed in sympathy. Gathering up the folds of her shimmering skirt of pastel silk that resembled falling rain when she moved, Analia drifted outside to wait for Leo.

      In the garden, she inspected the green plants growing in beds edged with multi-colored stones. It’s time to bloom. She bent to touch their stems and leaves. Important guests are coming, and even though you are young plants, I would be pleased if this garden looked as lovely as you can make it. Could you bring forth your flowers?

      Under her touch, the plants hummed. A rose stretched upward, its stem growing larger and fuller. Branches appeared, followed by thorns. Buds formed. With a tremulous shivering they opened to reveal bright pink petals.

      Wonderful. Thank-you.

      When the iris bulbs saw that the rose had bloomed, they pushed up their own green stems that widened and grew deep purple buds. With a faint popping sound, the buds burst into bloom.

      Lovely. Analia stroked their stems with a long finger and moved to the next bed where the daffodils were competing over who could produce the largest blooms.

      All the plants responded to her touch and her voice and the sense of anticipation hovering over the garden. Soon everyone was blooming, a mass of color, flowers of every shape and size emitting their scents and singing, their music a complex chorus that sounded like bells of many sizes and shapes.

      When all were in bloom, Analia invoked a pleasant breeze, enough to cause the tulips to sway and the pale peonies to scatter their fragrance through the air.

      In the distance,

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