What Did You Get Me?

puzzling out a present on a walk through the park

Radha's dad Rion picks them up from school unexpectedly. Rion tells Radha that he got a present for them and thought it might be fun to walk home together and along the way Radha can guess what the present is. Radha has some pretty wild guesses! A steam train that delivers fried chicken? A barracuda with a briefcase? An albino moose with a cello? None of Radha's guesses are correct—not exactly anyway.

What’s the present?

Hardback

ISBN 979-8-9868545-0-2

Paperback

ISBN 979-8-9868545-6-4

You can get the paperback on Amazon, but Lulu nets me more money.

The cover of What Did You Get Me?

Copyright

All rights reserved. For now.  The copyright for this work will become more permissive over time and will be in the public domain 48 years sooner than is typical. For the first 10 years of publication, please don’t steal this book and try to make money off it. Buy lots of copies for friends and for your local library.  See the URL at the bottom of this page for the latest permissions.

This book is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Do me a favor: take good care of yourself today.

~Matthew.

This story was created while residing on the lands of the people of the Multnomah. It is clear that genocide made this story possible and while I wish that were not the case—and I know that I am not directly responsible—I do benefit from centuries of terror, abuse, and lies by people who look exactly like me. I don’t know how to address such an inhumane outcome, but addressing it must begin with acknowledgment.

Copyright © 2022 by Matthew Oliphant

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First edition October 2022

ISBN 979-8-9868545-0-2 (hardback) —October 2022

ISBN 979-8-9868545-6-4 (paperback) —December 2022

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