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The Kind Cloud Farm Rebellion(Day 30)
a novel (a page a day for as long as it takes)
*This was the very first novel I wrote. I started it in 1999 and finished the first draft in 2003. After several years of failed attempts to shop it around to literary agents and publisher I finally gave up. I still think it is a good first novel, so I’ve decided to share it here on Medium. Enjoy!
Chapter 9–10 (Day 30)
In the weeks following the protest Yuma had warned several protesters to stay out of Hip-In Meadow and in one case, he had spent over an hour helping a kid untangle himself from the razor wire when he’d caught his sweater in it going over the fence. Soon after that Cross had a small guard shack built at the main gate and hired a full time security staff to man it day and night. Yuma was beginning to feel like a cop again and the feeling wasn’t sitting well with him. It was a strange sensation for him to feel the tension rising in Trajico Bay. His sympathies were with Kind Cloud Farm, but so far the construction crews hadn’t broken the law whereas Yuma was called in on trespassing charges almost daily. He also found himself lecturing Geezer about keeping the commune members and the few people from the Hip-In festival that were still hanging around on the weekends to keep out of Hip-In Meadow. He feared it was only a matter of time before he had to arrest one of them.
