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    Walking Away from the Past
    Walking Away from the Past
    Walking Away from the Past
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    Walking Away from the Past

    By Linda Jordan

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    The last day on the set and Estelle must perform complicated stunts with explosions and fire. Still jittery from the morning's news of her nearly ex-husband's suicide with alien drugs and whiskey.

    The Suits lurk nearby, deciding whether to shut down the film. Two of them aliens, from Cassion and Kessara, represent alien corps who took control of Earth.

    Today, she needs to just survive. And figure out a way to turn her life around.

    A strikingly-original story, full of wry humor mixed with screwball comedy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMetamorphosis Press
    Release dateJan 23, 2019
    ISBN9781540109873
    Walking Away from the Past
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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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      Walking Away from the Past - Linda Jordan

      Walking Away from the Past

      Walking Away from the Past

      Linda Jordan

      Metamorphosis Press

      Copyright © 2012 by Linda Jordan

      Published by Metamorphosis Press

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      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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      Walking Away from the Past

      About the Author

      Walking Away from the Past

      Estelle stood motionless inside the Special Effects Tent, while they rigged her black, faux leather catsuit with small explosives. They’d already coated her skin with a layer of sooclea to protect it from burns. The gel came from a plant on some Unity planet and it smelled like stale beer. That, combined with all the chemicals housed in the tent, made her feel slightly nauseated this early in the morning. Bright lights reflected off the white fabric of the tent and the light would have shocked her awake if she hadn’t already been there. She shivered slightly in the chill predawn air and glanced at the clock strapped to the tent support. It was 4:30AM. Fifteen minutes till filming started.

      Okay, you’re good, said Marshall.

      Thanks, she said, picking up her bag and walking towards the set. The street was mostly dark, lit only by a few streetlights in this strange mix of grungy urban apartments, small run down shops and a grass filled park with a grove of tall Eucalyptus trees. The park, just outside Santa Barbara, took up two blocks and had been taken over by the tents and trailers of the production. A slight breeze ruffled her short, cropped hair, but didn’t do much to cool her off. It must already be eighty and sweat was pooling beneath the non absorbent fabric of the catsuit.

      Today was supposed to be in the hundreds. She felt relieved her scene would be finished early. The Suits were supposed to be here today. Hopefully, they’d arrive to see the leads. Long after she’d gone home.

      Home. A heaviness filled her. At home she would have to deal with the legalities of an almost ex-husband who’d just blown his brains out after downing a bottle of whiskey and some alien drugs which hadn’t been identified yet. Too many companies still left to contact. She still hadn’t dealt with his condo rental either. All of it made her head hurt.

      Estelle ordered an espresso from the catering tent and was at the set by 4:25, plunked her bag down on a chair and sat down to wait. She didn’t bother to adjust the catsuit. It would just creep back up again.

      The set was in the alley of the buildings across from the park. It was filled with intense work lights at the moment. The alley had been hosed down so it would have puddles and be easier to simulate the rainstorm. The buildings had been distressed and looked more grimy and disheveled than a few days ago.

      Sipping the straight black espresso, she savored the bitterness and intensity filling her mouth. The lighting grips were scurrying around, adjusting everything.

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