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    Conquering the Monsters
    Conquering the Monsters
    Conquering the Monsters
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    Conquering the Monsters

    By Linda Jordan

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    Julianna’s just come home to her inheritance, Grandma’s house. To begin a new life amongst all the old pain.

    To make matters worse, something strange is lurking in the garden.

    Julianna’s got to prove to herself that she can pull her life together and deal with all the monsters - past and present.

    A story of hope and new beginnings by the author of Bibi’s Bargain Boutique.

    A Garden Magic story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMetamorphosis Press
    Release dateMay 15, 2016
    ISBN9781310766367
    Conquering the Monsters
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    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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      Conquering the Monsters - Linda Jordan

      Conquering the Monsters

      by

      Linda Jordan

      Contents

      ~Conquering the Monsters

      ~About the Author

      ~Copyright Information

      Conquering the Monsters

      Julianna climbed the newly rebuilt porch stairs of her grandmother’s old house. Stretching her body which was tired from being in the same position for so long.

      This was now her house, she reminded herself. She dropped her heavy backpack with a thunk, onto the wooden floor of the wide wrap around porch.

      The place had looked better the last time she’d seen it. The sea green paint had been fresh, not peeling. The floor boards worn. They probably hadn’t been resealed for a decade. Maybe two. The windows covered with a thick layer of dust, despite the relentless winter rains. Everything was covered with dust. She could even smell it.

      The few nearby farms tended to leave their fields open in the winter and the topsoil just blew away. Which was probably why many of them were failing. That’s what her grandmother had always predicted.

      You must protect the soil, it means everything. They’re all fools.

      Now, many of those farms had been abandoned and the earth lay bare and dried out from the heat. Maybe decades from now they would be covered with weeds as nature reclaimed the land.

      Thirsty, she licked her lips. Julianna pulled the half empty water bottle from her pack and sipped it. The water tasted like chlorine. She’d refilled it from a water fountain at the rest stop. It was better than nothing.

      She looked out at her grandmother’s front garden. It looked like a jungle, despite no one watering it.

      Julianna hadn’t spent much time in the garden when she lived here as a kid. She’d preferred the woods beyond. Where no one could find her.

      The garden had been her grandmother’s province.

      And the garage had been her grandfather’s. Her hands made fists, nails cutting into her palms at the thought of him.

      He’s gone. Long gone, she reassured herself.

      She’d take this trashed out house and make it hers. Exorcise its previous residents and create new memories here. She could do this.

      She had to.

      She looked at the weathered, peeling boards of the wall, running her fingers along it. What color should she paint it? Not green. Perhaps something outlandish.

      No, she wanted this to become her dream house. Even though all the work that it needed made her feel even wearier than the long drive had.

      The boards on the porch creaked as she walked on them.

      She startled a flock of small, brown birds. They scattered, chattering, and flew up into a large tree near the road. She didn’t know what kind of tree it was. She didn’t know many plants. Time to change that.

      Time to change a lot of things.

      How many years since she’d been here?

      Ten? Fifteen?

      Back then the porch had held Grandma’s rocking chair and the new porch swing. Now, the chair was gone and the porch swing old. It hung from the roof on one side, the other side was broken. The wooden seat tilting, listing in the wind. Trying to touch the floor. To find stability, but failing.

      Sort of like her life.

      Grandma was gone now. Mom and Dad long dead. Julianna was barely talking to her brother, James. He’d stayed behind with Grandma. When Julianna had run away from the restrictions and rules, which had only applied to her, not her brother. She’d fled at 18 to the big city and never looked back.

      Until Grandma died last month.

      That was just after Julianna’s marriage fell apart and the emotional fallout caused her to screw up at her job so miserably that they fired her. Her entire life had imploded. Then she’d ended up in a car accident, which had totaled the car and herself. A triple whammy.

      So, here she was. Back at the old homestead. Having accomplished nothing in the world.

      The prodigal Granddaughter returns.

      Grandma’s will had left the house to her. James got the cash. Julianna guessed Grandma decided that she needed a home. She was probably right, but Julianna wouldn’t have chosen here.

      And after looking at the local real estate market it

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