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    The Russian Winter
    The Russian Winter
    The Russian Winter
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    The Russian Winter

    By Holly Wade Matter

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    Whether time is linear or a loop -- a divine whim or a Moebius strip -- the answer may mean Bobbi's daughter lives again. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Betancourt
    Release dateFeb 21, 2023
    ISBN9781479466603
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      The Russian Winter - Holly Wade Matter

      Table of Contents

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      THE RUSSIAN WINTER, by Holly Wade Matter

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      Copyright © 2004 by Holly Wade Matter.

      Originally published in Aeon One.

      Published by Wildside Press, LLC.

      wildsidepress.com | bcmystery.com

      THE RUSSIAN WINTER,

      by Holly Wade Matter

      Like a pagan idol, Balboa Stabilo sat on a purple and gold cushion in the middle of the splintered kitchen floor. She balanced a skull full of fortune cookies in her right hand; the fingers of her left hand formed a rude mudra. Thirteen stainless-steel doves clanked aimlessly around her; and behind her rose the arched doorway, quiescent, for the time being, of the MindFuck Instantaneous Gratification Unit.

      Noble and naked (but for her metallic gold wig and a rope of raw turquoise beads), she presented a complex visual challenge to Auburn, who sketched her for a future mosaic. Balboa was magnificently and sensually fat, and really needed no ornamentation but her blue-black pubic hair. Auburn, herself thin in severe grey wool, envied Balboa’s luxurious body. Of course, Auburn need not have patterned herself in the style of

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