By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain
Little Gail London and her friend Joel Quarrel are out on a cold and lonely morning at the end of summer, when they make the find of the century: a dead plesiosaur, the size of a two-ton truck, washed up on the sand. With the fog swirling about them, they make their plans, fight to defend their...
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Little Gail London and her friend Joel Quarrel are out on a cold and lonely morning at the end of summer, when they make the find of the century: a dead plesiosaur, the size of a two-ton truck, washed up on the sand. With the fog swirling about them, they make their plans, fight to defend their discovery, and face for the first time the enormity of mortality itself... all unaware of what else might be out there in the silver water of Lake Champlain.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00IRCZIBY
Publish date: 2014-04-29
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 100
Edition language: English
I really liked this short story, but it was to short, this would had been a great beginning for a real novel instead it ended when it just started to get interesting...I would have loved to have Gail return as an adult, searching for closure to the traumatic experience she had at the lake.
Now THAT was a fun ride. This one brought back memories of Amazing Stories, not to mention the Bradbury tale, "The Foghorn", which, I'm sure, was intended, because this story was first published in a tribute to Bradbury. Being that "The Foghorn" is one of my favorite literary shorts, I dug Hill's od...
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