Jack the Giant Killer by Charles de Lint

He doesn’t know whose story it is that he’s got stuck inside him, just like he doesn’t know who was up there in the rocks that night among the cholla and mesquite. But if you can connect to it, if you feel it just right, for that small piece of time your hearts can beat as one, and how often does that happen in anyone’s life? The heart of what’s being told lies in between the lines, where you can’t see it. Ramona once told him that words are just the bones of a story.

It might have been someone playing a flute, it might have been the wind, but that story came riding the music and slipped inside him, worrying its way under his skin, and now he’s swollen with the need to get it out. It isn’t his story, but the seed of it fell onto him last night while he was listening to music coming down from a ridge above him. But he knows he needs them, because there’s a story he has to tell. Yellow Dog has lived in the desert for so long that he’s forgotten how to use words-the shape and taste of them, and how they can be thrown into the air and caught by another’s ear. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to and purchase your own copy. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This is its first worldwide release in an inexpensive format. It was reprinted the following year as a limited edition chapbook from Subterranean Press.

Yellow Dog first appeared in 2007 as one of Charles de Lint's personal chapbooks that he gave to family and friends. One day a mysterious stranger shows up at the scrap yard, unable to speak, but willing to help in more ways than one. Ernie and his friend Salvador also search the desert at night, but they carry food, water and blankets to help the same travellers in the unforgiving desert. borders from the influx of illegal Mexicans. The boss works by night as a self-proclaimed Minuteman protecting the U.S. Yellow Dog is a short story set near de Lint's fictional desert town of Santo del Vado Viejo, where his novels The Mystery of Grace and The Painted Boy take place, and where some of his recent short fiction has been set.Įrnie Grant is a decent guy, a bit of a desert rat who works at a scrap yard where he has to put up with racist comments from his crass, bullish boss.

Jack the Giant Killer by Charles de Lint