Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Daughter of the East Wind
    Daughter of the East Wind
    Daughter of the East Wind
    Ebook24 pages18 minutes

    Daughter of the East Wind

    By Linda Jordan

    1/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    A prisoner since birth, Asha escapes her mother, East Wind. While reveling in freedom and discovering the world, she finds her own hidden powers, and her soulmate.
    Does she have the courage to claim him?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMetamorphosis Press
    Release dateSep 8, 2011
    ISBN9781466140400
    Daughter of the East Wind
    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.

    Read more from Linda Jordan

    Related to Daughter of the East Wind

    Titles in the series (1)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    YA Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • UNLIMITED

      The First Coconut

      Aug 2, 2023

      The First Coconut
      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Sun’s Tale

      Jun 8, 2022

      The Sun’s Tale
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Cricket League

      Jan 1, 2023

      Mythological Creature Ryan Coppa, age 9 Shaker Heights, OH The Day with Cerberus “But it’s unfair!” I protested. “For the last time, no World Series tickets,” Dad explained. I stomped to my room, not turning back. When I entered my room, I saw a m

      11 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Queen Of Salt

      Feb 6, 2020

      Queen Of Salt
      10 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Silent One

      Mar 1, 2023

      In the spring of the year 960, on the twenty-third day of the third month, a brilliant light shone in the northwest, and a baby girl was born to a fisherman’s family in Fujian Province. The girl was such a quiet, watchful child, her parents called he

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Silent One

      Mar 1, 2023

      In the spring of the year 960, on the twenty-third day of the third month, a brilliant light shone in the northwest, and a baby girl was born to a fisherman’s family in Fujian Province. The girl was such a quiet, watchful child, her parents called he

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Swan

      Aug 27, 2021

      The Swan
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Dragon’s Teeth

      Feb 2, 2022

      The Dragon’s Teeth
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      New World

      Apr 20, 2021

      New World
      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Ursula K. Le Guin

      Jun 15, 2018

      He was thinking of Lookfar, abandoned long ago, beached on the sands of Selidor. Little of her would be left by now, a plank or two down in the sand maybe, a bit of driftwood on the western sea. As he drifted near sleep he began to remember sailing t

      15 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Crocodile's Gift

      Aug 3, 2022

      The Crocodile's Gift
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Hippo And The Tortoise

      Apr 1, 2022

      The Hippo And The Tortoise
      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Priestess’s Namesake

      Jan 1, 2024

      MY NAME IS Enheduanna. I was named after the courageous priestess who fought invaders to save the sacred temple of Inanna, our city’s powerful goddess of love and war. Enheduanna was also a magnificent poet who wrote about her epic adventures. My mam

      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Story Of The Yara

      Aug 5, 2020

      The Story Of The Yara
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Girl Who Knew No Fear

      Jun 8, 2022

      The Girl Who Knew No Fear
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Change

      Aug 8, 2019

      The Change
      10 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Form Seven Alpha

      Oct 10, 2023

      So here I sit with it again, Form 7⍺. It is printed on cheap paper with low-quality ink that smudges under my fingers. The option they judge least bad for me has been scored through, unavailable, while the four other options remain. Since the last ti

      26 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Needle

      May 30, 2023

      The Needle
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Drawn To The Shore

      Jun 28, 2024

      Drawn To The Shore
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      He Who Fishes

      Feb 6, 2023

      He Who Fishes
      15 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Lakshmi

      Sep 8, 2022

      Lakshmi
      19 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      A Book Of Disruption And Departure

      Nov 1, 2023

      To read is to dream, guided by someone else’s hand. The Book of Disquiet, section 229 Fernando Pessoa In the summer of 2021, I was returning to Kansas from a writer’s conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Along the way, a small rock must have hit the

      8 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The PEARL DIVERS of TOBA COVE

      Mar 1, 2023

      The PEARL DIVERS of TOBA COVE
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Forget-me-not

      Sep 2, 2024

      Forget-me-not
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Nsue And The Honeyguide

      Feb 1, 2019

      Nsue And The Honeyguide
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Gutbucket

      Feb 27, 2024

      Gutbucket
      18 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Swinning Duck Stars

      Apr 1, 2022

      The Swinning Duck Stars
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Daughter of the East Wind

    1/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Daughter of the East Wind - Linda Jordan

      Daughter of the East Wind

      by

      Linda Jordan

      Contents:

      ~Daughter of the East Wind

      ~About the Author

      ~Copyright Information

      Daughter of the East Wind

      The Daughter of the East Wind stood on the cliff top overlooking the Summer Sea. She watched people far out in their fishing boats dragging nets through the deep, green water. Closer to shore, divers leapt from their boats into the warm shallows. She imagined they sought octopus or perhaps precious pearls.

      High upon the cliff, Asha felt truly alone for the first time in her life and she loved it. Mother would, of course, be searching for her. To lock her up again. How could a Wind Goddess not understand her daughter needing freedom? She was seventeen, an age at which most girls her age were married or at least being courted. And Asha had seen nothing of the world.

      She felt the huge shadow above before she saw it. Asha flattened herself to the ground, next to a large boulder. The massive roc flew over, not seeing her.

      Did it belong to her mother? She knew most of East Wind’s creatures, but not all. The rocs resembled giant eagles, their largest feathers more than three times her height. They had always seemed independent of her mother. Their large rookery overlooked the Summer Sea. Even though they were invisible to humans, the rocs protected those fragile creatures. It was probably good humans couldn’t see them. The massive birds picked up elephants and dropped

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1