The bone-deep chill of Arctic isolation meets spectral horror in this disquieting short story from speculative fiction author Liz Blackburn. Stranded at a remote observatory with only a malfunctioning radio and her own unraveling mind for company, Elma Peters is used to silence. But when an eerie melody cuts through the static-followed by a message in a language she shouldn't understand, but does-Elma begins to question what's real and what's memory.
And whether whoever's trying to reach her is sending a message from halfway across the world. or from the other side of death.
The bone-deep chill of Arctic isolation meets spectral horror in this disquieting short story from speculative fiction author Liz Blackburn. Stranded at a remote observatory with only a malfunctioning radio and her own unraveling mind for company, Elma Peters is used to silence. But when an eerie melody cuts through the static-followed by a message in a language she shouldn't understand, but does-Elma begins to question what's real and what's memory.
And whether whoever's trying to reach her is sending a message from halfway across the world. or from the other side of death.