Jake's Cave
By Linda Jordan
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New guy at the Paradiso Institute, Jake yearns for a career making archeological finds. Instead he’s trapped in a cave by an earthquake, beset upon by alien creatures and has to deal with a group of angry Paradisians. Will he survive and make it back to the human world?
A Paradiso Story
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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Jake's Cave - Linda Jordan
Jake’s Cave
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Linda Jordan
Contents
~Jake's Cave
~About the Author
Jake’s Cave
Jake slowed the airbike to get his bearings. Flattop to his left and just ahead lay the Goblin Mountains, named by a couple of drunken cartographers. He stopped the bike, landing gently in the sandy valley.
His goggles told him that the Humping Horses Mountains should be on his right, and beneath that, the cave system he was looking for. But all he could see was a large pitted rock which looked more like a brontosaurus and it was only slightly larger than his room at the Institute. Definitely not a mountain.
The wind kicked up and hit him with a mixture of sand and sanshay. He’d only been on Paradiso for a couple of days and still wasn’t used to smelling sanshay all the time. Strange to have what was an expensive drug on Earth, simply floating through the air. It was a distraction.
He tried to figure out where the hell the caves were.
He looked at the wristband. No reception out here. When he got back everyone would hassle him, again, about not having a gilt. On Earth it was a status symbol to go without one. Out here at the edges of the galaxy, apparently, you were crazy not to have one. Still he didn’t want a piece of metal wrapped around his head and all sorts of stuff implanted into his brain. He liked his brain just the way it was. Without the constant noise.
If he could get this entire cave system explored, then he’d be able to one-up the old guys at the Institute. Jake smiled at the possibility. He hope to find his career making site here.
He whizzed the airbike around the boulder, close to ground level. On the far side he found what looked like the cave entrance, peeking out from behind a large slab of stone. Could it be? Or were the directions that fed into his goggles more of the hassle the new guy thing? If he had a gilt, he’d have been able to tell.
But he didn’t. So he stopped the bike and turned it off. Then he adjusted the temp on his enviro-suit. It would be cooler underground. He wasn’t used to temps above 44C.
The sand nearby wasn’t too deep his goggles told him. Walkable at least. His boss, Jessica, had warned him to check. Some sand was so deep that anything heavy on it, like a