“Island of Swallows” by Aggie Zivaljevic

A story by alum Aggie Zivaljevic (fiction, ’05) appears at Cosmonauts Avenue:

For ever so long, Iskren Syeveratz had watched over the island’s elders, who without their offspring were like oysters without pearls. The octogenarian grandfathers and grandmothers sat in front of their stone houses looking out at the sea for the return of their children from the foreign lands, until they were petrified and turned into dust.

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