Alison Schiller

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“Incredible Seabirds of The Kerguelen Islands” by Alison Schiller

Submitted to Contest #160

There were warning signs that morning. A shift in the winds. Charcoal clouds gathering. A crackling in the air like the day itself had been plugged into an electrical socket.  Ellie had felt the stirrings of it for weeks. Months. Years, even. And had she just looked out the window, she might’ve seen it coming. A restless inevitability bobbing to the surface of a placid summer like a knife had been taken to the tethers of something long tied down. But that morning, with her nose in her book, Ellie missed the warning signs completel...

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