Coffee and Chocolate: Echoes

By Michèle Laframboise

A passenger on board a fast-moving train glimpses a couple of brown horses in an unkempt field. She sees them again the next year, and the year after. She wonders if they are neglected or loved for by their owner. That small field may be the horses' last protection against a one-way trip to the slaughterhouse...

A short but haunting true story by Michèle Laframboise, Canadian multi-award winner author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Echofictions
• Release date: Dec 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781988339054

Michèle Laframboise

A science-fiction lover since childhood, Michèle Laframboise has written 17 novels and more than 30 short-stories, in French and English. Her short-stories have been published in Solaris, Galaxies, Géante Route, Brins d’Éternité, Tesseracts and a few other anthologies.  Some of her works were translated in Italian, German and Russian. Michèle is also a comic enthusiast who drew a dozen of graphic novels. As a science-fiction writer, she endeavors to find creative solutions to the many challenges that lay before us. / Michèle Laframboise est une ex-scientifique devenue auteure de science-fiction. Elle a publié 17 romans et une trentaine de nouvelles, récoltant plusieurs distinctions et prix littéraires. Ses nouvelles ont été publiées dans les revues Solaris, Galaxies, Géante Route, Brins d’Éternité, Tesseracts et d’autres anthologies. Elle a été traduite en italien, en allemand et en russe. Dessinatrice enthousiaste, elle a aussi publié une douzaine de BD. Sa science fiction cherche toujours des solutions créatives aux défis qui nous attendent

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Coffee and Chocolate

by Michèle Laframboise

a true story

Echofictions

Echoes Collection

Coffee and Chocolate

Copyright © 2016 Michèle Laframboise

Collection Echoes

Published by Echofictions

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

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ISBN 978-1-988339-05-4 (epub)

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Interior horse drawings copyright © Michèle Laframboise

Coffee and Chocolate

a true story

by Michèle Laframboise

I discovered the joy of traveling by train after I moved to Toronto.

Between Montreal and the Queen City, I gazed from the window at a real-life, ever-changing movie of floating landscapes, never boring. It has been ten years now that I follow this curving line between the two buzzing metropolis. Remote family and literary events prompted those travels.

The rail crossed cluttered back yards of the suburbs, abandoned plants graffiti-tagged, lonely buildings with stacks seemingly sniffing at the sky. Sparse rachitic trees lined the railway, sometimes widening in small forests of maples sparse with firs, or