Exonumia

Old Short Story

*This is an old short story, first published in Dark Regions, then collected in Crawling Between Heaven and Earth.   The rest of the collection is available free, electronic, from Baen Free Library.

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Another George

by

Sarah A. Hoyt

He'd slithered through snow and walked under scorching sunshine, minding neither the cold nor the heat. He'd crept on his belly through tropical forests, he’d climbed snow-capped mountains, he’d crawled through deserts.

He'd caught late night flights and early morning ones. When he couldn’t find a plane, he’d clutched his clothes in an immense clawed fist, spread his leathery wings to the sky, and flown himself.

For days on end he'd forgotten to eat, only to fall, at last, ravenous, on whatever prey offered, animal or human, living or dead. It hadn’t mattered which.

He’d made it. He’d arrived.

The drive that had impelled him thither receded, wave on wave, like a retreating tide.

Like a man wakening in a strange bed, George Drake looked around and took stock. He sat at the table of a commonplace tourist-trap bar, in a commonplace coastal town.

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