The Eclipse Bird

 By Amity Gaige, Grade 9, Northeast Jr. High School, PA
Perhaps their seafaring stories were true . . .
Genre  Short Story   Topic  Fantasy, Sea, Loss, Departures, Animals

The narrator drives off the sea gulls who annoy him on an ocean voyage. Simon, an old salt with a strange affinity for the gulls, falls overboard, but mysteriously makes it to shore.

ID 30138   Published in Merlyn's Pen Volume 3, Issue 4  
Selected as an Editor's Choice

Featured on this site in:

Down to the Sea with Paper & Pen: STORY COLLECTION

Also appears in these Merlyn's Pen publications:

Outsiders and Others: Stories of Outcasts, Rebels, and Seekers; Freshmen: Fiction, Fantasy, and Humor by Ninth Grade Writers

Has been reprinted and/or translated in these countries:

China, Holland, Japan

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