Ways It Could Have Gone single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Ways It Could Have Gone
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'She might have said she couldn’t go. Might never have clambered into that car. What shoes was she wearing. There must have been a radio. Cigarettes. Bacardi. Joints. The smell of hair gel. Night wide open. Somebody driving them into it. Her neck her hands holding on. Always they conked out on Willunga Hill. Tonight the same. Cars tooting braying offering threatening. She stood in the shadow swish of pine trees making herself raise her head and stare at unnameable constellations caught between premonition and memory. The pines were the halfway mark between home and escape until someone said some people don’t like pines, they call them invaders, and everything once again had to be reassessed.' (Introduction) 

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 82 no. 4 December 2023 27352506 2023 periodical issue

    'Art and fiction is our focus this season: let’s lift our gaze, feed our spirits and gather our strengths.

    'Because this year has tested us. It has opened our eyes, it has broken our hearts and it has exhausted us. Truth and lie, courage and cowardice, pride and shame. And the new lows we have seen this year, so far beneath shame that we shudder to comprehend... Systematically lying for deliberately cruel impact, and then crowing with impunity. The horrors of wars with genocidal intent. The violence of unrelenting colonisation.' (Editorial introduction)

    2023
    pg. 160-167
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