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Pam Beasant was born in Glasgow and has lived in Orkney for 14 years. She has published in many magazines and anthologies. In 1999 she was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary.

RACKWICK BAY In Rackwick bay, the stones are pink with the effort of smoothing so much time into perfectly flawed roundness. In a colony they lie, a petrified spawn of dinosaur's eggs. And from this distance the cliffs are tame, postcard pretty. A fulmar wheels from its nest and tilts the world away from the sun. With a shock I watch your receding figure shrink through binoculars beside the suddenly steep and slatted rock­ a little figure. A tiny chaos on an open shore. Copyright © Pam Beasant 1991/2001