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Julia
This story was originally published in Day One, a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from emerging writers.
Twelve-year-old Julia is distraught when her father—an oceanographer whom she adores—abruptly abandons the family. Living in a silent house full of her mother’s grief and her sister’s bitterness, Julia has her own theories about her father’s disappearance. She believes he left to find the source of an unexplainable oceanic sound that he’d recorded a year earlier and named after her. Her hypothesis is that if she can find the sound’s origin, then she will also find her father. As Julia sets out on a perilous quest toward an oncoming hurricane, she confronts the ocean at its most violent and puts to rest the hopeful adolescent fantasy of being able to find answers if you just know where to look.
Twelve-year-old Julia is distraught when her father—an oceanographer whom she adores—abruptly abandons the family. Living in a silent house full of her mother’s grief and her sister’s bitterness, Julia has her own theories about her father’s disappearance. She believes he left to find the source of an unexplainable oceanic sound that he’d recorded a year earlier and named after her. Her hypothesis is that if she can find the sound’s origin, then she will also find her father. As Julia sets out on a perilous quest toward an oncoming hurricane, she confronts the ocean at its most violent and puts to rest the hopeful adolescent fantasy of being able to find answers if you just know where to look.
- GenresShort Stories
23 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 3, 2014
About the author
Lara Prescott
6 books992 followersLara Prescott is a New York Times bestselling novelist whose work has been translated into over 30 languages.
Lara Prescott’s debut novel, The Secrets We Kept, was an instant New York Times bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Lara received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas and currently lives in coastal New Hampshire with her family.
Lara’s next novel, Ordinary Women, will be published in Spring 2027
Lara Prescott’s debut novel, The Secrets We Kept, was an instant New York Times bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Lara received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas and currently lives in coastal New Hampshire with her family.
Lara’s next novel, Ordinary Women, will be published in Spring 2027
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October 10, 2019
“Julia” is quite good. It is just a short story but would make a excellent beginning to a novel. I hope the author will develop it into something more.
March 2, 2015
A wonderful short story about the bond a father and daughter share and how him leaving effects the family. A well-written, convincing narrative.
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