Thunder Island

By D.R. Usual

Previously published in The Leading Edge, 2003. On the island there lived a powerful shaman, and across the water there lived a girl...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inventive Press
• Release date: Feb 14, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311728494

D.R. Usual

D.R. Usual lives the Republic of Texas, mostly in the present day.

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Thunder Island

By D. R. Usual

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Copyright Inventive Press 2014

Cover art Copyright Tori Imani Ferguson 2014

Originally published in The Leading Edge, 2003

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Thunder Island

The wind whipped at the young girl's dress as she approached the cliff, a reed basket held in one hand, opposite arm bent over the top to prevent the flowers inside from blowing away. Far below, waves crashed against jagged rocks. Even from this height she tasted the salty bite of the wind, channeled upward between opposing faces of stone. She reached into the basket and clutched a handful of long stems, framing a wish in her mind as she prepared to cast the flowers into the raging sea.

Not the white blooms, said a voice.

The girl dropped the flowers back into the basket and cocked her head at the