My Eyes Adjust: Stories from Antarctica
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Life in Antarctica isn’t always as pretty as the penguins. Staff and scientists live in dorms, eat cafeteria food, and work a minimum of fifty-four-hour weeks. Others work from remote field camps for the cause of science. Everyone has the same kind of red parka, the same payday, and the same selection of beers.
My Eyes Adjust: Stories from Antarctica is an unpublished collection of interlinked short stories that explores daily life at McMurdo Station over the course of one austral summer. Stories show the effects of a winter at South Pole through the eyes of a McMurdo janitor, the Waste Department reading recycled love letters and taking action, and geologists facing a storm in the field. These stories, among others, weave together a portrait of the “lost continent,” a complete collection with approximately 56,000 words.
My Eyes Adjust is currently seeking representation. Stories from the collection have been honored in the 2009 Oregon Writers Colony Fiction Contest and the 2010 Ooligan Press Write to Publish Contest. Stories have also been published by Johnny America and The Tower Journal. Take a peek:
If you’d like to learn more about this collection, please email erin.popelka(at)yahoo.com.
Mt. Erebus
