STORM WARNING

A linked story collection by Gerry Wilson. Coming October 2026 from Silent Clamor Press.

The image is of a book cover showing the title, Storm Warning, and the author's name, Gerry Wilson, against a background of storm clouds and featuring an old lighthouse and a cabin near it.

In the eleven stories that comprise STORM WARNING, the characters inhabiting the fictional world of Yemassee Island, off the coast of Georgia, are as bruised by the events of their lives as the island setting is battered and altered by storms and tides. A wide array of human experience informs these stories: birth and death, youth and aging, innocence and guilt, safety and risk, relationship and isolation. Most of all, these characters navigate the treacherous waters of love and loss. A young woman resists her gift of second sight. A boy comes of age through a crusty old lighthouse keeper’s tough love. A nearly disastrous dolphin-sighting cruise may—or may not—save a marriage. Members of a beach wedding party are awash in relationships gone awry. A mid-life pastor seeks renewal in a shiny motorcycle. A mother embraces the ghost of her son lost in a hurricane. Like an island landscape after a storm, these characters are forever changed, but they persist and survive.

Advance praise for STORM WARNING:

“In prose by turns lyrical and spare, Storm Warning offers an evocative portrait of a rugged place and the people who endure even the most unforgiving twists of fate.” —Cynthia Reeves, author of The Last Whaler and Falling Through the New World

“When the storms rage, you will feel the water pulling you in. A unique, harrowing, and strangely beautiful book.” —Stephanie Cowell, author of The Boy in the Rain and The Man in the Stone Cottage: a novel of the Brontë sisters, American Book Award recipient

“Turning the illusion of a genteel resort world on its head, Wilson’s deft hand conjures the dark magic of those who may not last the night in their shipwrecked lives.” —Marjorie Hudson, author of Indigo Field, Accidental Birds of the Carolinas, and Searching for Virginia Dare.

Gerry Wilson was a recipient of a Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Artist Fellowship for 2025. Artists’ fellowships are made possible by the Mississippi Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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