Chocolate is My Destiny

By Linda Jordan

Gwen lives in the high-flying world of political news. The Unity rules the Earth and aliens from all over the known universe visit.

Her career slides downward with each pound she puts on. Then she meets the Duveilian Ambassadors who smell like chocolate.

But the Ambassadors have a secret.

A science fiction story filled with understated humor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Metamorphosis Press
• Release date: Sep 7, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465785046

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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Chocolate is My Destiny

Chocolate is My Destiny

Linda Jordan

Metamorphosis Press

Copyright © 2012 by Linda Jordan

Published by Metamorphosis Press

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Chocolate is My Destiny

About the Author

Chocolate is My Destiny

I didn’t even wince as the human servant passed me in the crowd. He carried a tray of Duveilian Truffles. I wasn’t about to eat one.

It took me two whole weeks to lose thirty pounds and after spending an entire month’s credit on my new red dress, I just wouldn’t do it. No chocolate. Eating even one was a slippery slope from which there was no recovery.

HOPE would announce the new hire for News Anchor tomorrow and looks are what count in my business. If I get passed over again, then to hell with them. I’ll go to another Holo channel and eat myself silly.

I was putting on a happy face here at the party, but I really wanted to be at home filling my mouth with chocolate. Life hadn’t been going so well, despite the weight loss.

I’m primarily a researcher and writer. They only let me do news when the station’s jammed and can’t find anyone else. It feels like being someone’s thirteenth choice for a night