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The Pale
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By Liz Williams
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to cough and choke.
She came out of the poisoned sea, my
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mother, out of darkness and winter.
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When my father found her she was close
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to death. The December storms had by Stephanie Burgis
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had cast her up onto the shingle. My
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from the cliff top, and, thinking that a seal You can never let anyone
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had been washed ashore, he had rushed suspect, his mother told him.
down to retrieve the fat carcass. It was That was the first rule she
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rare to find a seal this far into the reaches, taught him, and the last, before
she left him here alone with It.
Guidelines or fish, or anything that had not been
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transformed by the waters: things with
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that were eyeless. When my father found by Matthew Johnson
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her, he saw that she was not a seal after
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all, but a woman.
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Long, long ago the people in Shetland andPale as he was, it was hard to