The Test

Can you pass a test by failing?In a world where coming of age includes a test of survival, Tali realizes everything she's learned is wrong. Can she make the necessary changes to survive? 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. Five fantasy and science fiction stories for teens involving the elements: earth, air, fire and water plus the wonder and magic entangled in them. A homeless girl in Seattle who creates fire, a daughter of the wind who has no apparent gifts, a goddess in the making, a colony on another world where coming of age requires a deadly test, and a teen forced to unplug from technology.Includes: The Test, Molten Glass, Daughter of the East Wind, The Distance Between and My Singular Summer.