Dry Clean single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Dry Clean
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'He was the only person who thought there was something grand about the art of dry-cleaning. His wife, Elizabeth, his four noisy sons - so big now - and the noisy children they'd produced; he knew how they felt about the work he did, something between disinterest and embarrassment. His children had 'professions', Elizabeth boasted to her friends. Dry-cleaning, the work that underwrote their home, their lives; he suspected they were slightly ashamed of that. It was something that smacked of service...' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Island no. 136 2014 7753797 2014 periodical issue 2014 pg. 65-69
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