The Place Where the War Meets single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 The Place Where the War Meets
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'A meteor the shape of a fist went past the kitchen window at dinnertime. Its shadow passed over the whole suburb. Dogs cowered and shook beneath tables and cats climbed the folded trunks of curtains. The butter melted and the milk curdled and the peas shrivelled in their bowl. Cars in streets screeched to a halt. All manner if electrical equipment bombinated into life: phones rang, horns horned, radios relayed the static of the big bang and fluorescent lights flickered nervously on and off, on and off, on and off. And then the world went supremely quiet, as if the animate and inanimate alike were vested with the same spirit and knew somehow that something awful was about to occur.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Island no. 149 2017 11563457 2017 periodical issue

    'Eighteen months ago, at the fag end of a mild New South Wales winter, I moved with my family from the Blue Mountains outside Sydney to South America : Chile first, then Argentina, and ultimately Easter Island, to research a book about my family. They were Scottish merchants, those forbears, Wee Free Protestants with a Bible in one hand and an account ledger in the other. Who set up business in Valparaiso, Chile, in the mid-nineteenth century and then went about becoming rich.'  (Editorial)

    2017
    pg. 38-42
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