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Alert
One way in, one way out, and nowhere to go.
Shannon is a researcher at an observatory located near Canadian Forces Station Alert, a remote listening post and the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. When a visiting reporter falls ill with a mysterious illness, the station gets put on lockdown as the rest of the world deals with the spread of the same strange illness attributed to a new, tropical parasite.
As those around her fall, she must figure out a way to survive in the deep darkness of an arctic winter.
Shannon is a researcher at an observatory located near Canadian Forces Station Alert, a remote listening post and the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. When a visiting reporter falls ill with a mysterious illness, the station gets put on lockdown as the rest of the world deals with the spread of the same strange illness attributed to a new, tropical parasite.
As those around her fall, she must figure out a way to survive in the deep darkness of an arctic winter.
30 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 25, 2021
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About the author
Crystal L. Kirkham
23 books52 followersCrystal L. Kirkham is a multi-genre speculative fiction author and podcaster. She has published several full-length novels and has been a part of multiple best-selling anthologies.
Originally from the west coast of British Columbia, she now chooses to call a tiny hamlet in central Alberta her home. She is an avid outdoors person, unrepentant coffee addict, part-time foodie, and companion to several delightfully hilarious canines.
She will neither confirm nor deny the rumours regarding the heart in a jar on her desk or the bottle of readers' tears right next to it. However, she will confirm that she once broke the metal handle to a 4-tonne car jack with her bare hands.
Originally from the west coast of British Columbia, she now chooses to call a tiny hamlet in central Alberta her home. She is an avid outdoors person, unrepentant coffee addict, part-time foodie, and companion to several delightfully hilarious canines.
She will neither confirm nor deny the rumours regarding the heart in a jar on her desk or the bottle of readers' tears right next to it. However, she will confirm that she once broke the metal handle to a 4-tonne car jack with her bare hands.
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May 6, 2021
(CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS)
Okay, there's no doubt this is a sci-fi horror. It has all the elements of a seat-of-your-pants race to survive and it happens quickly, so pay attention!
What I liked: The remote location, the characters believable terror, the diminishing chances they all face.
What I didn't like: The bugs. God, anything but bugs! I watched Alien with one eye open. This book had me reading with one eye open. Yikes!
If you're a fan of alien invasions, sci-fi that doesn't hold back and horror that gets you locking the doors, Alert is for you.
Okay, there's no doubt this is a sci-fi horror. It has all the elements of a seat-of-your-pants race to survive and it happens quickly, so pay attention!
What I liked: The remote location, the characters believable terror, the diminishing chances they all face.
What I didn't like: The bugs. God, anything but bugs! I watched Alien with one eye open. This book had me reading with one eye open. Yikes!
If you're a fan of alien invasions, sci-fi that doesn't hold back and horror that gets you locking the doors, Alert is for you.
May 30, 2022
I loved it. I know it’s a short story, but I could have definitely read more because it was definitely captivating! I loved the location the story took place in, and how the characters fought off the elements, too!
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