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    Great Skerry
    Great Skerry
    Great Skerry
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    Great Skerry

    By Niko Silvester

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    When Lir returns to Cobbleshore after many years away, he finds it much the same as when he left. Some people are gone, and some grown up, and there are new children, new houses, and new boats.

    There is also a hermit on Great Skerry, a tiny island up the coast that was previously only home to seals. At the request of an old friend, Lir sails to Great Skerry to talk to the hermit--a young man named Andry who was once in love with a seal woman.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Raven Press
    Release dateJul 15, 2011
    ISBN9781465972873
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    Niko Silvester

    Niko loves books. She loves to read them, to write them, to have them and to make them for other people. Much of her non-writing art ends up in book form, though some of it is in allied media like letterpress printing, relief printmaking, lithography, intaglio printmaking and photography. Oh, and she also writes and draws comics.

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      Great Skerry - Niko Silvester

      Great Skerry

      by Niko Silvester

      Published by White Raven Press

      Copyright 2011 Niko Silvester

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      Great Skerry

      The day Andry Danickson sailed out after his dead brother Torin, after the seal woman they both loved, was the day Lir Skavinson sailed home on the tide.

      Thirteen long years Lir had been gone, but the village of Cobbleshore was much the same. The faces were older, and many were missing, and there were new children—some of them wouldn’t be children much longer—who stared at Lir’s boat as she approached.

      The village itself was hardly any different. A few new boards might patch the docks, but tar and whitewash made them blend with the old. One house had been torn down and another built in its place, several had been added to, and there were fewer empty spaces around the Pond. But Cobbleshore was still a ragged nest of stilts and walkways, of faded clapboard houses in once-bright colours and chimney stacks of beach cobbles and old brick. Merchant’s house still ruled the only flat piece of land, and the cobble beach still edged the inner reaches of the Pond. The Narrow—the passage between sea and Pond—was still as slender as ever, and the shrine to the sun still perched on the cliff above all, out of reach of day-to-day thoughts of fish and of boats and of whose husband had looked too long at whose teenaged daughter.

      Lir climbed wearily over the Selkie’s side onto the dock and tied the painter to an iron ring. His legs wobbled beneath

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