by Blake, J
And then suddenly he let a piercing keen and was crying. Weeping without restraint. Wracked with great fierce sobs that shook him to his bones.
He drew his knees up to his chest and hugged them tight against himself and rocked back and forth like a child and wailed his grief with all the heart left to him.
And his wails echoed off the rockwalls down in the empty canyons and carried out to the wasteland and faded in the darkling void.
About the Author
James Carlos Blake was born in Mexico and raised in Texas and Florida. His short fiction has won awards and appeared in a variety of literary journals. He is the author of The Pistoleer; The Friends of Pancho Villa, and Red Grass River. He lives in El Paso, Texas, and DeLand, Forida.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.
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Blake, James Carlos.
In the rogue blood / James Carlos Blake.
p. cm.
1. Frontier and pioneer life—Mexican-American Border Region—Fiction. 2. Mexican-American Border Region—History—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3552.L3483I5 1997 97-11647
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