Tag: guest fiction

Catch

They have escaped to this region on the recommendation of Josh’s friend, who has family down this way. Josh and his partner, Matt, don’t think they know anyone else who lives or holidays here—not regularly. The whole environment is abnormally clean, the air and the freshwater springs, the bush, the burnished beaches, the sea and…

The polar bears of Kolyuchin Island

(Excerpts from the diaries of Officers Jeffrey, McKenzie, Robinson, McGregor, Draper)   1   1400 hrs. From the ship the rocky cliffs and shores are visible, but only intermittently as gales play with the clouds, lifting them for periods of thin sunlight, then dropping them, plunging the horizon into grey foggy thickness.   Eventually binoculars and drones…