Love Is a Stranger single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Love Is a Stranger
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' I'd heard the boys at school say you needed to run after your first drink, to get the alcohol working. It got you drunk faster. I didn't bother with that. I was drinking brandivino, a foul, sultana-flavoured brew. I took a painful gulp of it, and watched as a possum came gripping along the wire of a telegraph pole, not knowing the death humming along beside it. Its eyes were filmed with light as it reached the safety of wood, and then it went down face first like a lizard...' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Island no. 137 2014 7754937 2014 periodical issue 2014 pg. 68-72
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