The Girl From The Sea by Shalini Boland EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Shalini Boland
- Genre: Women’s Crime Fiction, Psychological Literary Fiction, Women’s Psychological Fiction
- Publish Date: 20 March 2019
- Size: 2 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Avail for Download
- Price: Free
The scent of salt and seaweed. My throat, dry. Lips parched.
Head aching. My clothes cling to me, heavy and wet. Cold.
Shivering. I can’t think straight.
What’s happening?
Eyes closed. A rushing, bubbling, frothing. Birds, wind,
warmth. I cough, a dry, echoing scrape. Painful. Everything
sounds close by, yet far away. My body is stiff. Numb. I can’t
move. Can I?
Water rushes over me. Cold and salty. Like it wants to
claim me. To keep me covered. But it seeps away, replaced by
a mixture of cool air and warmth.
My eyes fly open.
A fuzzy brightness greets me. I see blurred outdoor shapes
in beige and blue and grey.
My head is pressed down onto something cold and hard.
Not a pillow. Not a pavement. Sand. Wet sand. Something
presses into my temple. A stone? I raise my head with
difficulty. And bring up a reluctant arm. My hand peels away a
pebble. Tosses it aside with herculean effort. I cough. Retch.
There’s saltwater in my mouth. Bile. Tears. Snot.
Please, someone, tell me what’s happening. I feel as though
I’m trapped inside my head, unable to look outside. Like I’m
covered in a membrane. Sealed in.
A muffled voice breaks through my panic. I try to latch
onto it. But the incoming words slip and slide away – a flow of
sound that I can’t decipher. I try to keep my eyes open. To
focus on something. But neither my eyes nor my ears want to
cooperate.
‘Poppy, no!’
A snuffling black nose and a wet tongue. A whine and a
bark.
‘Poppy, no! Come here!’
It’s someone’s dog. I still can’t focus properly.
‘Are you okay? I’m so sorry. Good girl, Poppy.’
I open my eyes once more and order them to focus.
‘Are you okay?’ The same voice, closer this time.
A face looms into my field of vision. I see a nose, a mouth,
pink lipstick, glasses.
A noise comes from the back of my throat. But it’s just a
rattle and a rasp. Nothing intelligible. What am I trying to say?
‘I called 999. Don’t worry. Poppy, sit! The ambulance will
be here soon.’ A warm hand takes my cold one. ‘Don’t worry,
you’ll be okay
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