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Winnetka, CA: Silent Clamor Press (October 6, 2026)
Paperback. Signed.
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 recipientIn prose that sparks with electricity, these stories set the gazebo on fire, and leave us astonished at what devastations humans, and islands, can live through. - Marjorie Hudson, author of Indigo Field, Accidental Birds of the Carolinas, and Searching for Virginia Dare
Ultimately, Wilson's collection accomplishes something quite extraordinary: it creates a rich, dramatic world that is novelistic in scope, while building this world one remarkable story at a time. -Scott Gould, author of Beneath a Fallen Sky and Peace Like a River
On Georgia's barrier islands, ancient tides carve away memory and hurricanes reshape both landscape and lives.
A young woman with inherited psychic gifts searches the marshes for her missing brother. A grieving widow faces her estranged daughter across the ruins of their family inn. At an abandoned lighthouse, a young husband carrying an unbearable secret finds unexpected grace. A minister walks into the ocean seeking something he cannot name. A lighthouse keeper waits for a girl who will never return.
These eleven linked stories explore the liminal spaces where the living meet the dead, where faith confronts doubt, and where love persists despite devastating loss. Characters cross paths at the Island Escape Inn, on dolphin boats, at beach weddings-their separate griefs quietly weaving through generations.
With prose that honors both the beauty and brutality of coastal life, Gerry Wilson illuminates how we survive what we cannot outrun-and sometimes find our way home.
Gerry Wilson is the author of a literary historical novel, That Pinson Girl (Regal House Publishing), and a short story collection, Crosscurrents and Other Stories (Press 53). Her short fiction has most recently appeared in Halfway Down the Stairs, Persimmon Tree, and December magazine. She was a recipient of a Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Artist Fellowship in 2025.
A seventh generation Mississippian, Gerry's "native soil" is the beautiful but harsh red clay hills of the north. Deeply influenced by that place and by Mississippi authors William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, she often draws on her roots and family myths in her fiction — but she is also drawn to coastal landscapes, where she has found mystery and solace since she was a child. That pull of two places is at the heart of Storm Warning.
Like many young women of her generation, Gerry married right after college, and until her first marriage ended, she was a stay-at-home mother to four sons. At fifty, she completed a master's degree in English and published her first short story. For more than twenty years, she taught English and creative writing to high school students. She considers becoming an author her "third act."
Gerry lives in Jackson, Mississippi, with her husband, Austin Wilson, a poet and retired Millsaps College professor.
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