Electric Famine single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Electric Famine
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'I stand legs crossed at' the ironing board, not knowing if I need to pee or pass wind. I'm worried if I move a leg both will happen, right here, right now. A growl ripples through my stomach like thunder. We ate curry cubes for dinner last night - orange boxes of ice that melt to liquid peach and chilli. It's the only way my husband can eat. Everything I cook needs to be water or ice or vaper or steam, no solid foods. They would fall straight through him like a coin down a wishing well. Except your wish never comes true and you're stuck in a house with a cloud for a husband. A big, white, lazy mass of watery-air husband...' 

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    y separately published work icon Voiceworks no. 113 Summer 2018 16829090 2018 periodical issue 'Last night I travelled across town to my friend’s house, which is also the headquarters of the riso press/comics publisher Glom Press, to help finish putting together the last two in a series of six comic books that Glom has been releasing this year. The days seem to have gotten longer really suddenly—it was still light out when I arrived, and, as everyone sat around carefully collating stacks of printed pages, two rainbows—one single and one double—were shining above the house.' (Mira Schlosberg, Editorial introduction) 2018 pg. 33-37
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