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    Trust

    By Linda Jordan

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    Gena keeps the human side of communications up and running inside the Catalpan Consulate.

    The system wants something else.

    So does Soukis, one of the Catalpans.

    Readers who enjoy understated humor must read this thought provoking story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMetamorphosis Press
    Release dateOct 5, 2012
    ISBN9781301884568
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    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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