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    The Chair
    The Chair
    The Chair
    Ebook27 pages22 minutes

    The Chair

    By Linda Jordan

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    Bibi’s spent her life helping others heal. What happens when she’s burnt out and needs help recovering? Who does she turn to in order to re-energize herself and keep helping others?

    A Bibi Story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMetamorphosis Press
    Release dateMay 14, 2012
    ISBN9781476411408
    The Chair
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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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      The Chair - Linda Jordan

      The Chair

      by

      Linda Jordan

      Contents

      ~The Chair

      ~About the Author

      ~Copyright Information

      The Chair

      The rasping of male frogs looking for a mate pierced the night. The noise had been nonstop since dusk.

      Bibi rolled over wondering if moving out to the sticks had been a good idea. She’d lived in Seattle for so long, sleeping with the window open summer or winter, blocking out the constant noise from buses, ambulances, fire engines, barking dogs, even fireworks on the fourth. But out here, the frogs were deafening in contrast to the silence which permeated everything.

      Why was it again she wanted to retire? And to the sticks? A whole half an hour from Seattle? Oh yeah, lack of stress. Time to herself. Feeling burnt out from years of helping everyone else heal, while she stayed disconnected from people.

      Alone and lonely.

      So how did moving to the country change that? How would she find people out here? Her nearest neighbor was an acre of wild blackberries away and he seemed as solitary as she was.

      Finally, she got up, found her slippers, then her flannel bathrobe and walked across the creaking wooden floor to the kitchen. It was 5 A.M. She rubbed her eyes, yawned and put on some coffee. It must be time to get up.

      She went outside to sit on the narrow deck. The air smelled fresh from the ongoing rain. Typical spring. The sun wasn’t up yet, maybe in an hour or so. She could barely make out the flowering bushes that edged the lawn. Since she’d never gardened, Bibi hadn’t a clue what they were. But she’d learn. That was the whole idea about moving out here. At least part of it. Gardening was supposed to be meditative and healing.

      Start a new life and let Jenny,

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