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    By Smoky Zeidel

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    “The way I see it,” said Daniel, “the fence lizard eats the fly, so the fly becomes part of the fence lizard. The fly is the fence lizard. The fence lizard gets eaten by the snake, and thus becomes the snake. What’s to say that snake won’t get snatched up by a Golden Eagle, and thus become the eagle?”

    Does the same principle apply to humans? Marina is about to find out.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas-Jacob Publishing, LLC
    Release dateJul 26, 2017
    ISBN9781386940296
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    Smoky Zeidel

    Smoky Zeidel is a poet and novelist whose love of the natural world is thematic in all she writes. She taught writing and creativity workshops for many years at venues throughout the Midwest before succumbing to her bohemian urges and moving to Southern California. Her work has earned her two nominations for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. Smoky lives in a ramshackle cottage in the hills outside Los Angeles with her husband Scott and a plethora of animals, both domestic and wild.

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      Transformed - Smoky Zeidel

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      Smoky Zeidel

      Copyright 2017 Smoky Zeidel

      All rights reserved. No part of this story may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher, with the exception of brief quotations in a review.

      This story is a work of fiction. While some of the historical references may be real, characters and incidents within the story are the product of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to events or persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

      Thomas-Jacob Publishing, LLC

      USA

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      LIFE-CHANGING (adj.): altering a person’s life or circumstances in a substantial way. Examples of life-changing events include near-death experiences, going to college, having a baby, and other Phew! or Wow! moments. For Marina, it meant something much less glamorous: a puking bird and a bunch of pinhead-sized spots on the flowering milkweed plants in her back yard.

      She might not have noticed the puking bird had it not been perched atop the ocotillo she happened to be standing under at the precise moment the bird chose to vomit. She might not have gotten hit in the face had she not looked up to see what was making the retching noise overhead. But she was, and she did, so there you have it.

      Unrelenting was the only way to describe the summer heat in the Colorado Desert of Southern California. Unrelenting, and brown. Desert sand brown. Dust-over-gray-granite brown. Dust-over-olive-creosote brown. The ocotillo feigned death, their thorny skeletons baking under the unforgiving sun.

      Then the rains came, and the desert exploded into bloom. Delicate stalks of lupine danced in the afternoon

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