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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Drift
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'What happened to the ship wasn’t my fault. At least, I don’t think that it was. Things like that are hard to work out in the moment.

'My last clear memory is of working on the exterior, the humans crowded safely inside. They always felt so distant, locked down in the dark with the warmth and oxygen. It was better, out on the hull. Moving quickly and gracefully, all six limbs planting temporary rivets and pulling me along. It’s what I was made for. The humans were shouting at me to move faster, to fix the damage. I didn’t know what had gone wrong with the ship, but that was okay. Fixing things is what I do. They were insulting me, their voices high and thin with panic. So fragile and so strange. (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Aurealis no. 90 9 May 2016 9571272 2016 periodical issue 2016
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