Seeking Solitude
By Linda Jordan
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Angel and most of her family are stranded on an unexplored planet. Waiting for her brother to find help and get their ship repaired. She hopes he intends to return and pick them up.
Her plans to help make their fortune thwarted, Angel occupies herself studying the planet.
What she discovers changes her life.
Readers who love thought-provoking coming of age stories should pick this one up.
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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Seeking Solitude - Linda Jordan
Seeking Solitude
Linda Jordan
Metamorphosis Press
Copyright © 2021 by Linda Jordan
Published by Metamorphosis Press
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Seeking Solitude
About the Author
Seeking Solitude
Angel plonked down on the stupid boulder, yanking off the too-large boot once belonging to her brother. She’d long ago outgrown the smaller pair but there were no creds to buy new ones that fit. Even if they made it off this stupid planet to another system to buy things.
She pulled a stone out of the boot and threw it hard, watching it barely bounce and then splinter into pieces.
She hated this planet. They’d named it Jagged, because everything felt so hard and sharp here. Not a great name but no one had come up with another. They all felt apathetic, or worse, about being stuck here. No one willing to label it depression. Depression involved…complications.
Even walking felt hard here. She’d barely gone 800 meters and her legs felt wobbly. The rest of her body wasn’t doing too well either. Her heart rate was up and breathing felt laborious.
But she couldn’t stay in the emergency shelter forever. She felt so bored. And it was too crowded with her Dad, Karl, and his partner, Xia. Plus her younger sister, who made more noise than everyone else put together.
Caleb, her brother, had moved the Veil,