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    The Dilemma of Unrequited Love
    The Dilemma of Unrequited Love
    The Dilemma of Unrequited Love
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    The Dilemma of Unrequited Love

    By Linda Jordan

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    Aurora’s mutant superpower allows her to know when people lie to her. That’s useful for a therapist. Not so useful when it comes to unrequited love.
    An ‘Aboard the Universe’ Story

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMetamorphosis Press
    Release dateNov 26, 2014
    ISBN9781311756237
    The Dilemma of Unrequited Love
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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 Dilemma of Unrequited Love - Linda Jordan

      The Dilemma of Unrequited Love

      by

      Linda Jordan

      Contents

      ~The Dilemma of Unrequited Love

      ~About the Author

      The Dilemma of Unrequited Love

      Aurora sat in her dimly lit office. She pulled her long bronze colored dress down a bit. The silky material never stayed where it was supposed to, but it looked stunning on her. Not that he’d noticed.

      The room wrapped around her like a blanket, making her feel more whole. Four yellow ochre colored walls, plush faux leather chairs and walls hung with warm colored tapestries from Eoch 27. Black pottery bowls sat on a nearby shelf. On the coffee table in the center of the rust colored chairs sat a large circular brass tray. It was filled with stones from every planet that the Universe had stopped at for excursions. A real candle flickered in its glass container and cedar needles burned in a large oyster shell, leaving a comforting scent.

      She sniffed the cedar smoke and tried to breathe in gratitude and breathe out despair. To let go of the hopelessness she felt about her own life.

      Aurora tried to meditate for half an hour. Finally, she stood and blew the candle out.

      Lights to six, she said.

      The lights brightened.

      She paced around the room. When would the transfer come through? She had to get off this ship. She just couldn’t live like this any longer.

      The waiting room door buzzed.

      She wasn’t expecting anyone.

      Aurora opened the door to the waiting room and walked through it to the door to the hallway.

      Who is it? she asked.

      Captain Jonnia Assan, said the gravelly voice.

      She opened the door and said, I wasn’t expecting you.

      Well, you bloody well should have been. Can I come in?

      Of course, she said.

      She closed the door after the tall Pecma. He walked into her office, his spiny tail dragging along behind. He pulled an ottoman from one corner and placed it among the circle of chairs, then sat on it. The human chairs didn’t leave room for his tail.

      Sit, he said.

      Are you in a hurry? she asked.

      Not particularly, he said.

      Would you like some tea?

      Yes, Jonnia said. I haven’t been here in a while. I forgot that you love ritual.

      Yes, I do. It exists for a reason. It makes it easier for people to speak what needs to be spoken.

      Good. Truth is what I need today. He scratched his scaly forehead.

      As Aurora poured hot water into the cups, the soothing scent of mint rose, filling the air. While the tea was steeping, she lit the candle again.

      She should have known he’d come. She’d been so wrapped up in her own emotions, she hadn’t really considered what anyone else’s reaction would be.

      Aurora removed the tea bag, slipping it down the conduit for the ship’s compost system and brought the mugs to the table, setting one in front of him.

      She sat in an adjoining chair, smoothing her dress down again.

      The stoneware mug in her hands, she gazed at the mandala which appeared only when the cup held heated liquid. As the tea cooled, the design would disappear.

      Why? Tell me why you want to leave my ship. asked Jonnia.

      I just think I need new surroundings.

      After you’ve spent years refining this? he asked, gesturing at her womblike room. "I don’t believe that. And you asked to be transferred to

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