Ice Dragons
By Linda Jordan
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Lissa struggles to fit in at the Parnassus Colony, her birthplace.
She manages only by spending all her time outside in the snow and ice, exploring.
She makes a ground-breaking discovery that challenges everything known about the planet.
A must read for lovers of other worlds. Fearlessly imagined.
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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Ice Dragons - Linda Jordan
Ice Dragons
Linda Jordan
Metamorphosis Press
Copyright © 2013 by Linda Jordan
Published by Metamorphosis Press
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Ice Dragons
About the Author
Ice Dragons
Lissa tugged her ragged leg pads back up where they belonged. They were too large for her, had been made for someone with more muscle. She wore four layers of clothes on her body, although all of them were torn and patched. There wouldn’t be any new clothes until the next growing season came around and no one really knew how long that would be. This planet wasn’t fully understood yet. Humans had only lived here for twenty years.
She’d been born here, sixteen years ago. This was her home. She’d never known Earth or the ship which had broken down, marooning all of them here.
She adjusted her knitted face mask. The freezing wind felt brutal. Pieces of ice clung to it, she snapped it and most of them fell off. She should probably turn back, but the closeness of the underground city bothered her, so she always stayed out as long as possible. Mom had accused her more than once of being claustrophobic. Lissa saw it more as tired of being crammed in with everyone else. She simply preferred to be out in the fresh air, spending her time exploring the nearby mountains and their caves. She’d apprenticed to be an explorer for that reason.
She didn’t fit in anywhere. But neither did the rest of the explorers. They were all antisocial outcasts.
Lissa always got punished for it though. Mom kept trying to shove her into being someone else. Into becoming a person Lissa couldn’t even understand. Her mentors Rianna and Alex were always yelling at her about something she’d screwed up. No one tried to understand who she was and what she wanted to do.
She trained nonstop to be in the best shape possible. Always building muscle, speed and endurance. She could go faster and farther than anyone in the colony. She needed to.
They’d been on this planet for twenty years. Twenty years and no one had gotten more than a mile away from the protected cave system they’d huddled into on landing! The conditions were so extreme, down the mountainside and up the other mountains. But, she was going to do it. She had to do it. She had to do something important and finding out about this planet was