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    Needle-Green
    Needle-Green
    Needle-Green
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    Needle-Green

    By Debbie Mumford

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    Needle-Green, a redwood dryad who has made the leap from growing sprout to intelligent being, embarks on a journey to find the perfect place to put down permanent roots. Preferably far from the reach of interfering humans. Does such a sheltered refuge exist? Needle-Green hopes to discover that it does before s/he becomes too tall to walk the earth in anonymity.

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    A prolific copywriter by day, Debbie Mumford has been published in WMG Publishing’s Fiction River anthologies, Heart’s Kiss Magazine, Spinetingler Magazine, and other markets. She has also released several novels, novellas, and short story collections, including the popular Sorcha’s Children series. Find out more about Debbie’s work at debbiemumford.com or follow her on Facebook: @DebbieMumfordWrites. Join her newsletter list at eepurl.com/bTXLhX to receive an exclusive FREE story!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWDM Publishing
    Release dateMay 7, 2017
    ISBN9781370459957
    Needle-Green
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    Debbie Mumford

    Debbie Mumford specializes in speculative fiction—fantasy, paranormal romance, and science fiction. Author of the popular Sorcha’s Children series, Debbie loves the unknown, whether it’s the lure of space or earthbound mythology. Her work has been published in multiple volumes of Fiction River, as well as in Heart’s Kiss Magazine, Spinetingler Magazine, and other popular markets. She writes about dragon-shifters, time-traveling lovers, and ghostly detectives for adults as Debbie Mumford and contemporary fantasy for tweens and young adults as Deb Logan.

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      Needle-Green - Debbie Mumford

      Needle-Green

      Needle-Green

      Debbie Mumford

      WDM Publishing

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Epilogue

      About Debbie Mumford

      Also by Debbie Mumford

      Chapter 1

      Iopened my eyes and stared into the leafy canopy so far above my head it might have been—What was the word? I searched my consciousness and delved into our collective memories. Ah. Yes. There it was—the sky. I pulled air into my tissues, refreshing the cambium layer running just beneath my bark. The air was crisp and clean and tasted of family. My grove.

      I stood quietly, drawing strength and understanding from the life of the root system below me. I was Needle-Green, a redwood dryad. I had made the leap from growing sprout to sentient being.

      Glancing around, I saw other dryads stirring. Hundreds of us littered the ground at the feet of our elders. Most were seedlings, tall stripling youths whose seeds had drifted to earth seasons earlier. They had germinated in the needle-strewn soil of our

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