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    The Lava Lamp
    The Lava Lamp
    The Lava Lamp
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    The Lava Lamp

    By Linda Jordan

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    Sarah doesn’t believe in miracles.

    Homeless and destitute, she spent the last few years climbing out of a deep pit.

    Then life threatens to push her back in again.

    An enchanting story about what happiness really means.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMetamorphosis Press
    Release dateJun 21, 2017
    ISBN9781370933341
    The Lava Lamp
    Author

    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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      The Lava Lamp - Linda Jordan

      The Lava Lamp

      The

      Lava

      Lamp

      Linda Jordan

      Metamorphosis Press

      Copyright © 2016 by Linda Jordan

      Published by Metamorphosis Press

      Contents

      The Lava Lamp

      About the Author

      The

      Lava

      Lamp

      Sarah ran down the rain-slicked sidewalk pulling her coat closed at the neck to keep the water from dripping off her short hair. It was cold out on this dark morning and she was late. Breathing heavily, she tried to catch her breath .

      She needed a new alarm clock. The one she’d bought used hadn’t gone off the last two mornings. So after work today, she had to make it happen. Couldn’t afford to lose

      this

      job

      .

      The retro, red Christmas decorations that filled all of Fremont, lit the darkness around her, but didn’t give her any feeling of celebration. Not this morning.

      Entering the darkened cafe through the front

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