The Pointy Finger of God single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 The Pointy Finger of God
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'Let's go down the drain and look for her body' Stirlo says. 

'No Point' Says Marlo.

'It's been four weeks since Angela went missing, and they'll never ever find her alive. We've been up and down the stormwater drain every day after the school, and there's nothing. We've been through all the weeds with our sticks and up into the bush, walking in a line like the police. We found a condom, but that's it. Marlo pushed her stick into it and then she chased after me. She brought it home like that, on the end of her stick and said she was going to put in my bed.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Southerly Questionable Characters vol. 77 no. 1 2017 12297024 2017 periodical issue

    'This issue of Southerly was conceived both a general topic that would attract a wide range of submissions and to reflect the return of the'character' to the fore of literary scholarship in the last decade. This return to character is taken up in John Frow's study Character and Person (Oxford : OUP, 2014) which details the fundamental 'problem that fictional characters are made of words, of images, of imaginings, and not real in the way that people are real : but that we endow these sketched- in figures with some semblance of reality which moves' (online Chs 1, 2). Each chapter of Frow's monograph focuses on a figuration - and considers how these strategies work together to affect the reader's sympathy, interest and judgement.' (Editorial)

    2017
    pg. 186-195
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