Midwest Journal Press The tao of mysti, paperback/s. h. marpel

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I'd been left out here, alone.

By an oil-burning lamp.

In the cold, uncaring desert.

It was my only comfort until dawn.

Just as the first of dawn started bringing the earliest glimmer of what I could see with my human eyes, I woke to some snuffling sound near my head.

Opening my eyes, not relishing the hot day coming, I saw the nose of an animal near my face.

Rise, little one.

I sat up.

And saw eye-to-eye with a female coyote.

She was not young.

Scars criss-crossed her front legs.

Her eyes showed wrinkles of her experiences.

Her udders dried and smaller now, but obvious she had born many litters.

We have miles to go.

Leave your lantern.

Carry that dolly if you want.

They are hunting us - you and me.

At that the old mother coyote walked off a pace.

And looked back.

She was the only life I could see in this parched desert.

So I followed as she led me to my new home.

Excerpt: Transcript of opening lecture to nursing students Hello and welcome to this lecture series.

As students of Rochelle's Lazurai Nursing School, you occasionally run into the rare spirit-turned-mortal, goddess, and other extreme metaphysical types, I've been invited to bring you up to speed on these and others.

Mostly because, I think, that when me and my friends first arrived on earth Earth, we caused a bit of concern as we were all soon being treated in an old saloon by your most senior healers.

The plus-side was that we all recovered.

Even though there was - and is - nothing more intoxicating in that saloon of Hami's than the good looks of those who visit it.

And the good food, of course.

(laughter) What you probably didn't hear was that there was a mental-metaphysical side to that treatment that had to be addressed so your physical laying-on-of-hands could do its wonders.

You see, I was involved in transporting all these wild girls to Earth.

One could bend time and space with her organic tesseracts.

Another was a trained outer-space killer and assassin, who 'graduated' when she terminated her last teacher.