Stranger in Thunder Basin (Leisure Historical Fiction) by Nesbitt John D

Author:Nesbitt, John D. [Nesbitt, John D.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781477837146
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Published: 2009-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

Ed woke up in the gray light. A horse had just snuffled. Opening his eyes, he saw the reddish hind legs of a sorrel. He gave a sideways glance toward his cheekbone and saw that he was sleeping in straw. He had made it back to the livery stable.

He was glad to know it. He realized he had just come up out of a dream. Cooley had been there, in a stovepipe hat and a long black coat, waving a black walking stick to lead on a throng of demonlike men, also dressed in black. They were all down in a maze of dungeons, clambering over rocks and going around pillars. Ed had been running from them, hiding in nooks and then running again, never making enough progress. In his dream he knew the way to the surface world but couldn’t get there. He kept stopping like a fool.

He heaved out a long, slow breath. It was good to know that it had been just a dream, although he still felt paralyzed. He didn’t know how much whiskey he had drunk, but it had been way too much, and he wasn’t used to it. Now it flowed in his veins like a toxin. He felt rotten, and he wished he could lie flat on the hard dirt floor of the stable and let the earth draw the poison out of him.

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