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    The Wind That Moves The Stars: Stephanie's Story
    The Wind That Moves The Stars: Stephanie's Story
    The Wind That Moves The Stars: Stephanie's Story
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    The Wind That Moves The Stars: Stephanie's Story

    By Ann Stratton

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    The Lakeside Festival is this weekend, one of Stephanie and Stell’s best times to make enough money to pay for the next month. Except that the new Park Supervisor has turned them down for a permit, forcing them to look elsewhere for a venue. And then the Cosmic Artifact starts having fits or seizures or something, which just absolutely ruins the rest of Stephanie’s day. Ruins two days, actually. How will Stephanie and Stell pay their rent and resolve the Artifact’s problem?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnn Stratton
    Release dateSep 14, 2016
    ISBN9781370666737
    The Wind That Moves The Stars: Stephanie's Story
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    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 Wind That Moves The Stars - Ann Stratton

      The Wind That Moves the Stars

      The Smashwords Edition

      Ann Stratton

      A Blind Woman Production publication

      Copyright © 2016 Ann Stratton

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment. It may not be resold or given away. If you would like to share this ebook, please purchase an additional copy for each person with whom you want to share it. If you're reading this ebook and did not purchase it, or if it was not purchased for your use only, please return to Smashwords and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

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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

      Cover photo courtesy of Bigstock Photo www.bigstockphoto.com

      Editing, formatting, and cover design by Ann Stratton

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      The Wind That Moves the Stars

      They wouldn’t give me the permit, Stephanie said, slapping the application on the island top where Gaya worked. She climbed up the stool and knelt on the seat so she could plant her hands on the counter. Every year, we’ve gotten a permit to play at the Festival, but this year, no! That new park supervisor didn’t bother looking at the line up. She practically had to lay on the counter to grab a strawberry and leaned back on the stool to eat it. Sizeist idiot. Where are we going to perform, I ask you that? Does he expect us to dance like monkeys on the streets? We’re artists, Gaya, real artists, not performing monkeys.

      Gaya paused to smile, her hand to her mouth. Of course, Stephanie, dear. You just caught him on a bad day, that’s all. Go in tomorrow and submit your application again, and he just might be much more reasonable.

      I’m glad you’re confident. You can afford it. He didn’t turn you down because you don’t fit his ideas of normal.

      Gaya still smiled. Dear one, you are exactly what you’re meant to be. Since there’s nothing more you can do there today, why don’t you take Fell and Chosen for a walk? They’ve been cooped up in the house all day and could use the exercise.

      Stephanie snorted. So they can drag me because they outweigh me, and some sizeist ass can call CPS because my parents aren’t there to supervise me and my dogs?

      Gaya paused in her chopping to look at Stephanie over her nonexistent glasses. "And you can do with the exercise too, my girl. You need the walk as much as they do. And you really are exaggerating. No one’s called CPS on

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