I Read Stories: The Melissa Of Cat Spit Island by Janice Leadingham

 

The Melissa Of Cat Spit Island by Janice Leadingham in Milk Candy Review

An episode of America’s next Top Model ends with the seven rejected models staying on an island off Florida to figure out what went wrong. They built lean-to shelters, lit fires with their mirrors, lived off gull eggs and crabs. They took the name Melissa.

They begin to change. To fit the island. To flirt with the fishermen. Models becoming something else. Sirens perhaps.

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