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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Sheen
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'The world is dead. Everyone who has come before you has died. You are the last, the last thing that moves.' Humans have left the dying Earth behind and all that is left is their creations who are left to fend for themselves until the sun dies.

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    y separately published work icon Joiner Bay & Other Stories Ellen van Neerven (editor), Witchcliffe : Margaret River Press , 2017 10865748 2017 anthology short story

    'Seventeen stories selected from the sixth annual Margaret River Short Story Competition. A truly national competition, contributors this year come from Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia.

    'Queenslander Laura Elvery’s winning entry, Joiner Bay, is a tender story about running and suicide by a schoolboy in a coastal community.

    'Second prize was awarded to Melbourne Writer Else Fitzgerald for Sheen, a sparkling science fiction story that asks questions about the crossroads of humanity and progress.' (Publication summary)

    Witchcliffe : Margaret River Press , 2017
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