Out on the Shillingate Isles

Lisa L. Hannett

Out on the Shillingate Isles

Lisa L. Hannett

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Some days, Gert tells herself it's the blisters scaring folk away from her stall on Barradoon harbour. The fresh yellow clusters in the crooks of her mouth. The older, darker beads blotching her lips. Her pink-weeping smiles. Lately, Gert doesn't smile much. What a sight she makes, chap-cheeked and salt-scoured from working on her Da's rented trawler. The spotlights they rigged to its mast are so much harsher than daylight, glaring on Gert's every flaw. The grease dreading her locks, the crows-feet stamped round her eyes, the calluses and cracks roughing her hands. Her bloody, gods-awful kisser.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Bitter Distillations
Subtitle of host publication	An anthology of poisonous tales
Editors	Mark Beech
Place of Publication	UK
Publisher	Egaeus Press
Pages	137-164
Number of pages	28
ISBN (Print)	9781916465794
Publication status	Published - 2020

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anthology
dark tales

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