On the eve of leaving for the upcoming Dark Mountain Festival in Llangollen, Wales I'm adding another short story to this constellation of sites. I wrote The Island last September. While I think all of my fiction, as well as my other writing, comes out of a sensibility I share with other Dark Mountain writing, this story was the first fiction I wrote after coming into contact with Dark Mountain and its founders' Dark Mountain Manifesto.
![The island](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb7119054-315e-4eab-a9d5-8eb845425cd4_620x380.png)