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The Silver Horse
by Elizabeth A. Lynn
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Copyright (c)1984 by Elizabeth A. Lynn


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The author appreciates the encouragement and assistance of David Primo
D'Aluiso, Kevin Arjuna Knight, Misty Star Gottlieb, Debbie Notkin, Jim
Frenkel, and Laurence Yep.
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_For the two Susans_
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*Chapter One*
Susannah sat looking out her bedroom window at the park.
You're too old to play with toys, she told herself silently. _Much_ too
old.
Beyond the green square park she could just see the skyscrapers of San
Francisco. They seemed shiny and clean against the sky of brilliant blue.
Sometimes Susannah could look at them and pretend that they were not steel
skyscrapers but silver and gold and crystal towers.
Not today, she thought. They look like fence posts today.
Her nose itched, the way it did when she wanted to cry and wouldn't.
Rubbing it, she turned her back to the window and looked across the room. Her
brother's purple toy chest sat beside his bed, lid down. The wooden silver
horse -- Niall was crazy about horses -- stood on top.
The horse had been a birthday present. Susannah's best friend's mother,
Celie, had found it in a thrift store, scraped it clean of its flaking black
paint and repainted it with silver glitter. As its proud mane and arrogant
pricked ears caught the light, they sparkled like sunshine on the sea. It had
only been in the house three days, but it made Susannah's things -- her
checked bedspread, her pictures on the wall, even the bright fantastic jackets
on her books -- look shabby.
Niall was so pleased with it that he had stuffed all his other toys out
of sight.