On the island of Silence, everyone is born mute. It is only through contact with outsiders that language is learnt, and though they can remember their earlier lives, cannot ever recall how it was they communicated with their brethren.
They cry continually, though many deny it.
The Islands of The World – Introduction
Ache – Allegory – Bay – Beauty – Blue – Boundary – Brilliance – Cage – Calamity – Certainty – Chalk – Change – The City Of Red Houses – Constellation – Cork – Delusion – Denial – Depth – Drowned – Earth – Easy – Erstwhile – Essex – Eyrie – Familiar – Far – Fireflies – Forest – Ghost – Golgotha – Guilt – Hope – Hotel – Impermanence – Infinity – Inspiration – Intervention – Ix – Jorel’s Island – Knowledge – The Light Of The Sun – The Lighthouse – Lure – Mars – Masque – Mist – Myth – Nest – North – Obscurity – Passage – Past – Poetry – Promise – Quiet – The Reflection of The Moon – Ritual – Roan – Rock – Rule – Salt – Self – Shatter – Shell – Silence – Silky – Siren – Soon – Sorrow – Speech – Story – Suffering – Target – Thicket – Thirst – The Thorns – Torpor – Tower – Unknown – Viy – Vurt – Walk – Wall – Web – Whisper – Wilderness – Wonder – X – Youth – Zaratan – Zeal