The Leather Jacket

By Linda Jordan

Margaux’s life is a mess: a controlling boyfriend, a full class load at the University where she can’t decide on a major, and her job cooking at a local cafe.

Can a simple leather jacket with a whole lot of mojo make her stronger or will she crumble under the pressure?

A Bibi Story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Metamorphosis Press
• Release date: Apr 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476320366

Linda Jordan

Linda Jordan writes fascinating characters, visionary worlds, and imaginative fiction. She creates both long and short fiction, serious and silly. She believes in the power of healing and transformation, and many of her stories follow those themes.In a previous lifetime, Linda coordinated the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop as well as the Reading Series. She spent four years as Chair of the Board of Directors during Clarion West’s formative period. She’s also worked as a travel agent, a baker, and a pond plant/fish sales person, you know, the sort of things one does as a writer.Currently, she’s the Programming Director for the Writers Cooperative of the Pacific Northwest.Linda now lives in the rainy wilds of Washington state with her husband, daughter, four cats, a cluster of Koi and an infinite number of slugs and snails.

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The Leather Jacket

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Linda Jordan

Contents

~The Leather Jacket

~About the Author

~Copyright Information

The Leather Jacket

Margaux looked up from her Art History book as the bus took the sharp corner and she stabilized herself. One more stop and she was home. Yawning, she closed the book. The last few pages were a blur and she couldn’t care less what Dali’s paintings were really about. Sleep was all she wanted. Wouldn’t happen until much later tonight. Paper due for Psych tomorrow and she needed to begin drafting something intelligent for her Astrobiology class to turn in next Monday, since she had to work at the cafe all weekend. Then James would want to go out both Friday and Saturday night. Her shoulders tightened. She didn’t know what to do about him.

The bus pulled up to her stop, just as she stuffed the textbook into her backpack. She bounced down the steps, exaggerating the movement, trying to wake up. Why was she working and going to school full time? Oh yeah, so she wouldn’t be paying off student loans the rest of her life. But what the hell was she going to major in? Fall Quarter ended in three weeks and she still didn’t have a clue after five quarters at the UW. This was the beginning of her second year and her advisor was coming down hard. But she just