Charles de Lint - Coyote Stories

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CHARLES De LINT

COYOTE STORIES

Four directions blow the sacred winds

We are standing at the center

Every morning wakes another chance

To make our lives a little better

-- Kiya Heartwood,

from "Wishing Well"

This day Coyote is feeling pretty thirsty, so he goes into Joey's Bar, you know,

on the comer of Palm and Grasso, across from the Men's Mission, and he lays a

nugget of gold down on the counter, but Joey he won't serve him.

"So you don't serve skins no more?" Coyote he asks him.

"Last time you gave me gold, it turned to shit on me," is what Joey says. He

oints to the Rolex on Coyote's wrist. "But I'll take that. Give you change and

everything."

Coyote scratches his muzzle and pretends he has to think about it. "Cost me

twenty-five dollars," he says. "It looks better than the real thing."

"I'll give you fifteen, cash, and a beer."

"How about a bottle of whiskey?"

So Coyote comes out of Joey's Bar and he's missing his Rolex now, but he's got a

bottle of Jack in his hand and that's when he sees Albert, just around the

corner, sitting on the ground with his back against the brick wall and his legs

stuck out across the sidewalk so you have to step over them, you want to get by.

"Hey, Albert," Coyote says. "What's your problem?"

"Joey won't serve me no more."

"That because you're indigenous?"

"Naw. I got no money."

So Coyote offers him some of his whiskey. "Have yourself a swallow," he says,

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