y separately published work icon Review of Australian Fiction periodical issue   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... vol. 21 no. 3 2017 of Review of Australian Fiction est. 2012 Review of Australian Fiction
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The Engagement, Patrick Holland , single work short story
Growth, Mirandi Riwoe , single work short story

'It lies on the crisp hospital sheet, absolutely grotesque. Dr Arnold tells us it's called a fetus in few. Our son's unformed twin. Most likely joined via the umbilical cord in gestation, now just a jumble of elephantine bone and skin, about the size of an apricot. Three canines — there's no denying they're teeth — protrude in a jagged line across its circumference. When we first saw it after the operation there was a shock of hair pressed to its side, still moist from having Thomas's stomach juices washed away. It looked like the slick of hair and scum drawn from a shower's plughole. I gagged, felt nausea water my mouth. But the hair, the colour of wheat and nearly ten centimetres long, is dry now, almost glossy. It looks like her hair. Like Hannah's. ' (120)
 

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