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    She Knew He Was Coming
    She Knew He Was Coming
    She Knew He Was Coming
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    She Knew He Was Coming

    By Kris Neville

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      She Knew He Was Coming - Kris Neville

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      Title: She Knew He Was Coming

      Author: Kris Neville

      Release Date: October 11, 2010 [EBook #33934]

      Language: English

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      Mary might have learned a more ladylike trade, but one thing is certain: she had a shining faith in that space guy from Earth. Now, about that cake she baked ...

      She Knew He Was Coming

      By Kris Neville

      Illustrated by Ed Emsh

      OUTSIDE, the bluish sun slanted low across the green dust of the Martian desert, its last rays sparkling on the far mountain tops. One by one, lights flickered on in the city.

      Mary must be expecting that Earthman, Anne said. She held her glastic blouse tight together over her breasts and leaned a little out of the window.

      Milly nodded. "The Azmuth landed this morning."

      The noises of commerce were fading. From the window Anne saw the neon blaze up over the door. For the thousandth time she blinked between the equivocal words: 30—BEAUTIFUL HOSTESSES—30. Laughter, dry and false, filtered up from the tea bars along the street. She looked westward, toward the spaceport, and made out the shadowy nose of the berthed space liner looming against the night. She could picture the scene—a thousand stevedores unloading cargo, refill men and native spacewriters scurrying over the sleek hull, the Earth voyageurs shouting orders and curses.

      Maybe he isn't even on it. Anne turned from the window. She crossed to the couch and sat down, fluffing out the green crinkly glass of her skirt; pendant, multicolored birds flashed from the rings in her ears. She tucked rosy feet under her scented body. I don't like Earthmen, she said.

      They spend money.

      They make me sick, Anne said. With their pale skins and ugly eyes and hairy bodies.

      They have strong arms.

      Anne's wide, red mouth curled in

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