The PMS Outlaws: An Elizabeth MacPherson Novel (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
—William Burroughs Elizabeth was in art therapy again. She stood before the easel in a few moments of silent contemplation before she set to work. As usual she began her charcoal drawing of a storm-tossed boat, but this time among the foam-capped breakers, she sketched in the head of a seal. In this view of the shipwreck, pictured a thousand times in her imaginings waking and sleeping, the boat was far in the distance, under dark clouds, like fists in the sky above it. Now the face of the seal loomed large in the foreground of the sketch, peering out at the viewer with sad, knowing, human eyes. Long ago the Scots and the Norsemen believed that seals were drowned sailors held forever in the ocean that was life—and death—for them. For this reason, they considered it unlucky for anyone to kill a seal. Her late husband, Cameron, who was a marine biologist, had also hated those who killed seals, but he called his beliefs “ecology,” and his opinions on seals had nothing to do with mysticism.
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