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Hollis Gillespie’s debut fiction, *We Will Be Crashing Shortly*, follows a youthful aviator famed for her reckless tendencies. After a routine take‑off turns into disaster, she finds herself the sole survivor aboard a malfunctioning plane adrift in the vast ocean.
Thrown into the unforgiving reality of isolation, she must draw upon both mental resilience and the skills she gained from the skies to confront physical peril and the relentless tide that surrounds her. The story examines the tension between a passion for flight and the necessity of living responsibly, all while unraveling the survival instincts that surface when survival is literally a matter of breath.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Hollis Gillespie
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