The Queen of May
By Linda Jordan
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Sivli a dryad, senses a deep imbalance in Faerie. Earth energy wanes and the world of Faerie drifts dangerously off-kilter.
With a plan in mind, Silvi decides she must be May Queen. To beat the sylphs in finding the first hawthorn blossoms of summer.
She feels driven to save the day.
This world bursts with an earthy, yet fantastical vision of Faerie.
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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Linda Jordan
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The Queen of May
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The Queen of May
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Linda Jordan
Silvi moved along the edge of the woods, smelling the rich, damp earth. Her bare feet and naked body slick from rain-drenched leaves. The ancient trees in this part of the forest hung heavy with moss.
She breathed in the rotting leaf smell that told her leaves on the forest floor had decayed enough to provide food for this season’s growth. Summer was nearly here. A thrush called out with its kneep kneep song.
She passed between the trees, touching the rough, smooth and furrowed bark of newly leafed out ash, rowan and hawthorn.
It was the hawthorn she was looking for. This year, she would be the one to find the first thorn blossoms, the first to bring them to the center of Faerie.
She would be May Queen this year. She had to.
The elements were out of balance.
Earth energy was waning in Faerie and in the world outside. A sylph had ruled Faerie for millennia and felt the waning begin. The sylph left the seat of power, hoping Faerie would renew herself.
Niamh, a dryad like Silvi, was chosen as Luminary three years ago. Faerie had yet to begin her renewal. She drifted, still too full of air.
For decades the sylphs and air elementals dominated everything, taking center stage at every