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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: It's every explorer's dream: first contact. Everyone knew that they had to be careful. There would be no contamination. No fatal exchange of viruses, no deadly cross-pollination of ideas, until they understood each other better. How could they have known they were doing exactly the wrong thing?

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Amazing Stories, 1994
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2005

15 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor

Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [166 KB], eReader (PDB) [23 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [9 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [9 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [72 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [80 KB], hiebook (KML) [29 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [35 KB], iSilo (PDB) [7 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [10 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [37 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [16 KB]
Words: 2432
Reading time: 6-9 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format:  Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED

Coyote woke to rain, and the sound of thunder ringing in the distance. For a moment she was home, hearing the rain slush off dormitory walls. Rivulets raced down the single window, to pool on the sill. Somewhere a computer-generated bird trilled as it hunted for non-existent worms. The scientist in her appreciated it--an excellent effect, calculated to elicit a specific response. Rise and shine, sleepyhead, the day's a-wasting.

Right on cue, she frowned, forcing her face into the pillow as though that would make the sounds go away. It was no use.

Groaning, she hoisted herself up on one elbow and looked out the single window with bleary eyes. A paint scrawled wall stared back impersonally, looking every bit as shopworn as she felt. Not even the imaginative graffiti could cheer her today.