The Miner's Garden single work   short story   historical fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 The Miner's Garden
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'Listen like a miner,' Dad said,  ' and you will always know your way out.'

'Yes,' I said, as if I understood.

I warmed him with broth by the fire. My eyes mapped the mountains of his shoulders and the cracked bowl of his hands hollowed out from the handle of the pick. I saw the dust of blue copper loosen from his fingers.' (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. 85-87
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