Ocotillo Omen

By Jon Foyt

This short story will give you the talking points, so that on your next museum visit you can pose perceptive questions to the Curator about provenance and authenticity of the artworks. Lee Roberts will also instruct how to deal with the FBI.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jon Foyt
• Release date: Jul 17, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452395296

Jon Foyt

Striving for new heights on the literary landscape, along with his late wife Lois, Jon Foyt began writing novels 20 years ago, following careers in radio, commercial banking, and real estate. He holds a degree in journalism and an MBA from Stanford and a second masters degree in historic preservation from the University of Georgia. An octogenarian prostate cancer survivor, Jon is a runner, hiker and political columnist in a large active adult retirement community near San Francisco.

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Ocotillo Omen

by

Lois Foyt and Jon Foyt

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Copyright 2010 by Lois Foyt and Jon Foyt

All characters in this short story are fictitious, and any resemblance to real persons living or dead is coincidental.

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Ocotillo Omen, a short story

She stared for a long time at the Ocotillo plant in the protected courtyard garden of the Palace of the Governors, New Mexico’s flagship museum of Southwestern treasure. The multiple unbranched stems of the thorny cactus-like shrub were sprouting their tiny green leaves of spring, yet the time was midwinter in Santa Fe. The courtyard’s spreading old Cottonwood centerpiece was bare, and snow