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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
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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