Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Emerging Adulthood; or, so Your Best Friend Is Dating a Dickhead
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'Call me a late bloomer. It wasn't until I reached my early twenties that I realised music videos were based on real life. Not all of them, of course. No-one can afford that much body glitter. I'm talking about the music video subgenre of the relationship melodrama. To be even more specific, I'm referring to the argument-while-driving: the kind that ends in a crash, resulting in coma and/or death, and finishing with a camera craning up to the heavens. Perhaps a dove is released, too, if you're feeling particularly nineties or happen to be at a karaoke parlor.' (Publication abstract)

 

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    y separately published work icon Voiceworks no. 89 Winter 2012 16748349 2012 periodical issue 'For a few years I lived in a tiny beachside town six hours from Melbourne. It was the kind of place with postcard-perfect shorelines, mudbrick houses and a prep-to–year  twelve college. So, even in a combined classroom, there were only ten other kids in my class, the majority of whom weren’t mad keen on books. These being the dark days of dial-up, whatchya saw was pretty much whatchya got in terms of a peer group – and even worse, selection at the school library. After moving to suburbia, the hourlong train ride into the city felt like teleportation in super-slow motion. The pull of those corporate towers sheltering hidden cafes was physical. Like an undertow or tractor beam. By the time adolescence kicked in proper, I was caught up in a powerful question familiar to all fledgling artists: once you realise you’re a writer, what next? I’d already taught myself to like coffee and some Silvia Plath. Now I wanted more.' (Kat Muscat, Editorial introduction) 2012 pg. 15-17
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