story: “inverness”
author: Laura van den Berg
year: 2017
where: Abu Dhabi
note: Like most of her work (excluding the novel Find Me), this story feels heavily researched.
a line: “Yet I could not shake the loneliness that had settled in months earlier and clung as stubbornly as the fog to the hilltops.”
theme(s): Heartbreak, partnerships, science, discovery (also, the Loch Ness Monster)