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Tally is one of the patients living at a private hospital's psychiatric ward after the apocalypse. Along with another survivor, Count, she goes searching for supplies. They encounter a nurse, Mary, on crutches in a medical clinic while looking for medications.

Mary joins them, and they use a scavenged ute to carry more supplies. An earthquake has them fleeing home with a narrow escape. Tally checks on the rest of the survivors before gathering them around for tea time.

Affiliation Notes

Writing Disability in Australia:

Type of disability Various psychological disorders, schizophrenia.

Type of character Primary.

Point of view First person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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y Defying Doomsday Tsana Dolichva (editor), Holly Kench (editor), Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2016 9322595 2016 anthology short story Abstract
'Teens form an all-girl band in the face of an impending comet.   A woman faces giant spiders to collect silk and protect her family.   New friends take their radio show on the road in search of plague survivors.   A man seeks love in a fading world.   How would you survive the apocalypse?
Defying Doomsday is an anthology of apocalypse fiction featuring disabled and chronically ill protagonists, proving it’s not always the “fittest” who survive - it’s the most tenacious, stubborn, enduring and innovative characters who have the best chance of adapting when everything is lost' (publication blurb).
Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2016
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2016
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pg. 263-288