The November Girl

You don’t want to be here when November comes.

Everyone leaves before the storms come…except me. I am the only one who remains on Isle Royal, ready to embrace the legendary Lake Superior storms that turn the skies wicked and the water dark.

For most of the year, I am human. Partly. But when the gales of November come, my humanity fades with the storms. I speak with the lake, the winds, and I wait for the ships that will shudder and sink. And for every life that is lost, I grow stronger.

Only t...