Chance single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Chance
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Lyn's husband, Peter, went blind in an accident two years ago. To help adjust to being sightless, they played games where Peter identified objects through guesswork or memory. To Peter, blindness eventually becomes a sort of blessing, as he learns to become sensitive to everything around him, constantly winning the games he starts pushing Lyn to play.

Peter's condescension and almost omniscient knowledge begins to frustrate Lyn until she realises she is like a slave to Peter. One day, at Peter's insistence (so he can guess what she's chosen to do), they go on a drive. Lyn offers Peter a new test: turning left or right, when she's driving right next to a cliff. Peter chooses right, and they drive off the cliff.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Acquired blindness.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view Third person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon LiNQ Literature in North Queensland vol. 20 no. 2 1993 Z619328 1993 periodical issue 1993 pg. 37-42
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