Nephew's Story single work   short story   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Nephew's Story
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'The bed sitting room, the afternoon light streaming through the window, the high-backed easy chair, the dark furniture around the walls, the mementoes, photographs, pot plants, dried flowers, little objects. The little objects I cannot immediately recall. They meant a lot to my aunt, they were the memory theatre of her life, all with their associations. They took her out of the room through space and time. To me they represented the fetishism of objects, they were just clutter. I could afford to reject all that, or thought I could. At the time I felt I had no choice but to reject it, the oppressive weight of the old world, old values, which I had travelled so far to escape. But every time I revisited the objects would all be in place, in still, silent repose.'  (Introduction)   

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Inspired by the Margaret Olley painting, 'Girl Sewing'
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 42 no. 4 Summer 1997 Z589491 1997 periodical issue 1997 pg. 34-38
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Wild Amazement Michael Wilding , Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 2006 Z1256150 2006 selected work short story autobiography Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 2006 pg. 128-132
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    y separately published work icon The Midlands, and Leaving Them Michael Wilding , Beeston : Shoestring Press (UK) , 2021 22108204 2021 selected work short story Beeston : Shoestring Press (UK) , 2021 pg. 66-71
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