Liz Allan Liz Allan i(13810161 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 1 Our Voices, Fierce Liz Allan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Best Summer Stories 2018; (p. 268-274) Lip Magazine 2018;
1 The Light of Things Long Buried Liz Allan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 230 2018; (p. 53-56) Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2019 2018; (p. 119-121)

'‘Sophie, come and look,’ Mum calls. I sulk, go to the window. Pretend to give a shit about jewellery. The opals are arranged on velvet cloth, shimmering under the hot beam of an office lamp. Occurs in the fissures of almost any rock, the note card says, most commonly in limonite, marl, basalt, rhyolite. Before they’re mined, opals run deep underground, seamed through the earth like irregular veins. These stones look dead on the black cloth, as if prepared for reburial.' (Introduction)

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