{"id":1848,"date":"2020-04-18T14:08:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T13:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlwriters.com\/?page_id=1848"},"modified":"2020-04-18T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T13:08:21","slug":"bernadette-the-stranger-an-alaskan-short-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/jlwriters.com\/index.php\/bernadette-the-stranger-an-alaskan-short-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernadette &#038; the Stranger: an Alaskan Short Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B01HXFVDAA\/\">CLICK TO BUY NOW!<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1838\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/jlwriters.com\/index.php\/bernadette-the-stranger-an-alaskan-short-story\/51s7aahp8gl\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jlwriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/51s7AAhP8gL.jpg?fit=313%2C500\" data-orig-size=\"313,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"51s7AAhP8gL\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jlwriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/51s7AAhP8gL.jpg?fit=188%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jlwriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/51s7AAhP8gL.jpg?fit=313%2C500\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1838 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jlwriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/51s7AAhP8gL.jpg?resize=313%2C500\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jlwriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/51s7AAhP8gL.jpg?w=313 313w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jlwriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/51s7AAhP8gL.jpg?resize=188%2C300 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jlwriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/51s7AAhP8gL.jpg?resize=125%2C200 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>On a small island in Southeast Alaska, a woman lives alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The stranger hadn&#8217;t moved from where she&#8217;d left him, not that she&#8217;d expected him to, but his chest rattled every now and then, evidence of life that scared her as much as soothed her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Bernadette suffers another loss in her life, she abandons humanity and moves to the island that her father left her. 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