Authors: Stephen Messer
Windblowne (23 page)
Blown into this world as a baby, Stephen Messer spent his childhood flying kites on windswept hilltops in Maine and Arizona. He has lived in deserts and in megacities, on alpine mountains and in lowland swamps. Nowadays he lives with his wife in an old house surrounded by oak trees in Durham, North Carolina. Sometimes, on windblown nights, it seems as if the house has been transported to another world.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2010 by Stephen Messer
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Messer, Stephen, 1972–
Windblowne / by Stephen Messer. —1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Hapless Oliver, who lives in the trees in the town of Windblowne, seeks his eccentric great-uncle Gilbert’s help in creating a kite for the all-important kite festival, but when Gilbert suddenly disappears, Oliver is guided by one of Gilbert’s kites in a quest through different worlds to find him.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89347-6
[1. Kites—Fiction. 2. Space and time—Fiction. 3. Identity—Fiction.
4. Uncles—Fiction. 5. Fantasy.] I. Title.
PZ7.M554Wi 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2008043777
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