A young woman sits on the beach and contemplates the existence of Sirens.
Excerpt
There is no uncertainty in my steps as I stride to the shore as the surf strikes mercilessly against the sand. I shiver as the breeze shifts my hair against my shoulders. The course grains of sand scrape my skin and slide slowly between my fingers as though siphoned through an hourglass.
I stare at the sand, considering the seconds of my life silently slipping past my fingers. Should I savor these? No, I decide, tossing it away. My feet step through the sandy shower without hesitation.
We were sixteen when we stood side by side on this shore, skirting the waves splashing our bare feet. The sand squished between our toes, and our feet got stuck if we stood too still. As the sun rose over the ocean waves, setting the sea sparkling in the light he seized my arm and pulled me close; with no money for a gift, he promised me the sea.
The sand is so white that the light of the moon bounces off it, bathing the beach in a luminous glow. I silently step through the shore like a specter, a spirit, a shade, a shadow of my former self, and remember when a night like this was enough to make me believe in magic.
Professional Reviews
Beautiful Imagery!
Kaitlin has taken the seashore and painted an image in my mind that is as indelible as it is hauntingly beautiful. A lovely maiden voyage!
Beautiful, tragic, simple
A very poetic book I read in five minutes! A small adventure about lost love and longing. I couldn't put it down, this short and fine read. These memories and thoughts bring us through a poeticly lovable tale. The ocean is a big thing here and the author brings us deeper into it, putting meaning and a hidden story behind the cover. Wonderings and thoughts from us mingle and create some to think about. The titke and small part of the book described by me- Sirens have chosen the ocean, though humans have chosen land. We sing for our misery and a longing for more. There are sirens stuck in the ocean and there is us who have chosen to live beside water but not within it
Great story
Siren Song is the beautiful short story about lost love. When you read, you feel the same sadness and anguish of the widow, you feel the sea wash away your sanity, and you can hear the siren's song.
Great story...
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