Once Upon a Time in Navajo

By MacShayne

Marc is a Dutch young adult who gets in a little accident somewhere in New Mexico. He travelled to the country he always dreamed about when he thinks that his life is about to end. Aimee is an aspiring police officer who ones dreamed about becoming the President of the United States. She grew up in a small native village where she returned after a brief stint at the FBI academy. The two are very much each other's opposites, one a dreamer, the other an achiever. Over the course of a few days, the two grow very rapidly close to each other. But, they both seem to know that their time together will be short...

• Language: English
• Publisher: MacShayne
• Release date: Sep 29, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370840823

MacShayne

MacShayne is the pseudonym of a Frisian born Dutch writer and actor. He mainly writes English romance- or thriller short stories. Apart from short stories, he also writes lyrics and film scripts. Currently, he is also working on his first Dutch novel which will tie-in with some of his romance short stories. As an actor, he has made mutiple appearances in Dutch or Frisian (short)films and series. Apart from writing and acting, he also completed Small Business and Retail Management at Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen in 2017. His other interests include supporting football club PSV Eindhoven, collecting various CD's and DVD's, sports, history, traveling and reading books. In the future he wants to learn at least three more foreign languages.

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Once Upon a Time in Navajo

Written by: MacShayne

(2017 re-issue)

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Copyright 2017 by MacShayne. Smashword Edition

Copyright 2015 by MacShayne. Original Edition

Edited by: MacShayne

Coverwork by: MacShayne

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, persons (living or dead) are coincidental.

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Table of content

Chapter 1: What Happened at the Intersection

Chapter 2: That First Navajo Evening

Chapter 3: Upon the Hill at Red Lake

Chapter 4: Vanilla Sky above Zilditloi Mountain

Chapter 5: An Ever Changing Horizon

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Chapter 1:

What Happened at the Intersection

When I was at school, I spend my time thinking about how to respond when my rage would gain the upper hand in me. And I mean at times when there was no solid explanation for it to happen. You see, most people are driven by fear, lot's are driven by love, a few are driven by desire and then there's the small group that mostly exists out of loners like me, they are driven by rage. It's something in our dna, you can't change it only accept it. Life with it. Eventually I fell in love. And that made things for me a lot easier, to contain my rage I mean. No more anger during math classes because I saw her that day. No more anger during gym because I remembered her smile and no more anger during weekends because I imagined me and her together on a plain to Bora Bora. No more anger during lonely hours because I felt something that made me warm up inside. It had the upper hand for nineteen months. Then I decided it was enough. I blocked love out of my system because I was too scared to be denied. It's lame. Because the only person that denied me was me, myself. Rage came back in such a way that I didn't even know where it came from and that didn't matter either. Because I was an adult now. I could live with it. I understood it. Rage…

I was driving in my cabrio MG, wore my ray ban sunglasses while I was getting lost. I decided since I finished my study that it was the right time to find the place where I would find myself. I was born and raised in the Netherlands and had nothing to complain about during my first twenty-two years on this planet. But, something changed everything that made me decide to leave the home country way too abruptly at 21st July. 2017 should have been my year, and in a way it was.

I mean, there's struggle, there's always struggle. It's like happiness, a part of life. We all have to deal with struggle. Some lots more than others. Life is just not fair. And I always liked to think that I was wise enough, there were lots other people that have it much more worse than we. Simply because it's true. Life is dangerous, that’s why no one survives, right?

Damn, I was looking at my watch, I used to say that time was all we have. And that's true. Because it's also the only thing we can't form in the way we want. You can expand it when nature has run its course with you, but you can't outsmart it. Now my watch is a little different than the normal watch. Mine doesn't work. I stole it out of my father's closet just after I received my final grad on Spanish. It was already broken but I liked it. For me, time stood still since that moment.

It made me think about this dream I ones had. A dream about a person that was standing on a mountain. Not too high, about 1500 metres high I guess. Looking over a sunny valley, comparable