The Outpost Away from the World

Maybe science doesn't know everything.

A Robin Brande Single.

Scientist Julia Ross Rosales returns to the off-the-grid cabin where she spent her unconventional—and some might say, magical—childhood.

It was her mother’s last wish. Even if Julia doesn’t believe in the hidden world her mother thinks she found here.

But out here in nature, away from the outside world, Julia begins to wonder if her mother could have been right.

Even if Julia’s scientific training tells her it’s impossible. Maybe there is more to the natural world than meets the eye.

[This story also appears in the collection MOUNTAIN TOUGH.]