Down the Yukon by Will Hobbs

Author:Will Hobbs [Hobbs, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: C429, Extratorrents, Kat
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-01-23T13:00:00+00:00

Approaching wakefulness, I heard bacon hissing on a stove. Abe is already cooking breakfast, I thought, and I’m not even up. I’ll be late for the mill.

The next thing I heard was the chuffing of a steam engine. The engine at the mill, I figured. Someone else has stoked the furnace, and I was supposed to have done it.

My eyes opened to a vast expanse of water and bluffs in the distance. Amid my confusion, the foreground exploded with motion. A flock of red-breasted ducks rose from the water and ran skittering along the surface, their black-and-white wings beating a frenzy until they rose, all at once, into the air.

As I blinked away the onslaught of the light I realized I was on the Yukon River with Jamie. I rolled over—there she was, sound asleep. I heard the swooshing sound of the sweeper sawing up and down in the river and remembered what had happened.

I got up and stretched, looking out across the river and upstream.

What I saw dumbfounded me. In the middle of the vast Yukon River, in broad daylight, floated a two-story building.

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