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Encounters With Old Coyote

by Laura Koerber

 

 

Genre: Magical Realism

Synopsis

“One thing about people—they need to tell stories. They can’t stop themselves. Stories all the time. That’s how they understand things.” So said Coyote to Andrea, shortly after she died. Andrea had never believed in any kind of afterlife or gods, so she was surprised to find herself still somewhat alive, floating in the form of a ghost in the soft, dry desert air of Nevada. She was even more surprised to meet a supernatural being with a coyote’s face, antlers, and the supplies for making coffee.

“I don’t understand why I’m a ghost,” Andrea said.

Coyote set his coffee cup down on the dirt beside his rock. He glanced at Andrea, grimaced, and said, “Okay, I’ll try to explain. Since you humans like stories, I’ll try to explain that way. I’ll tell you some stories.”

So come along with Coyote and Andrea as they share stories about life and death, spiders in the bathroom and how Andrea lost her bra at a truck stop, enemy gods and pottery shards, adventures in vomit, what scientists say about dark matter and the fifth force, and other topics both sublime and ridiculous.

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Enjoy this peek inside:

“Well, you know I love nature,” Andrea said, “but there are some creatures that give me the creeps. Snakes, for example.” She added earnestly, “I appreciate their role in the ecology and respect their right to exist, but I don’t want them anywhere near me. I’m a NIMBY when it comes to snakes. And I can’t abide a spider.”

“Spider is an asshole, too,” Coyote commented. “Not the same kind of asshole as Rabbit. Different kind.”

Andrea waited, but he seemed to have finished his thought. “Well, anyway,” she went on, “I was aghast when one caught me naked in the shower.”

Coyote’s black cowboy hat had vanished and instead he was wearing aviator shades that gave him the look of a preying mantis. Andrea blinked with surprise. He said, “Go on. Tell your story.”

“Okay. This is a story about why the bathroom waste basket got out in the front yard.”

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About Author Laura Koerber:

I live on a island in the Puget Sound with my husband and my dogs. I am a retired teacher, presently doing in -home care for disabled people while volunteering at a cat rescue

My degree is in art, and I am a painter, graphic artist, and ceramic sculptor. The writing started about five years ago, a surprise to me and everyone who knows me, since I had never written anything before. To my immense gratitude, my first book received outstanding reviews and made the Kirkus Review list of one hundred best indy books of 2015.

Since then, I have written ten books. People seem to like them; I get lots of four and five star reviews. My books are a bit unconventional; I mix magical realism with dystopia in many of them. My stories tend to be character-driven and include ghosts and spirits.

I think I learned to write by reading. I am a voracious omnivore of books.

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