Angel Thieves by Kathi Appelt

Author:Kathi Appelt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

Buffalo Bayou

HOUSTON

She’s not greedy, the bayou, but she has a hankering for coins. She collects them from every realm. Pass your plate and drop one in, pray for the fish and oysters.

Ask her in your sweetest voice, she is reluctant to hand over even one.

Pennies, dimes, coppers, silver pesos, gold dollars with the face of Sacajawea on one side, silver dollars with the face of Lady Liberty. She loves how they spin and roll in her wavy current until at last they settle into the silt, and how they throw off flickers of light when the sun hits them just so.

The bayou is particularly fond of the coins that come with wishes. She isn’t wild about granting wishes, but she understands their yearnings. After all, the tug of a wish is not so different from the pull of gravity, its longing for redemption.

Above all, she appreciates the rare buffalo nickel. There might be a thousand of them, buried in her bed. Maybe more.

She’s not telling.

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