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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Roadhouse
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Truck driver Harry finds a friend in fellow driver Don.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Milk in the Sky : Writing from the Centre Jan Hutchinson (editor), Alice Springs : Ptilotus Press , 2006 Z1405483 2006 anthology poetry short story autobiography

    'The Milk in the Sky is a collection of stories and poems from 25 Central Australian writers.' (Source: ABC Bush Telegraph website)

    Alice Springs : Ptilotus Press , 2006
    pg. 13-19
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    y separately published work icon Slippery When Wet : A Collection of Australian Short Stories no. 5 2006 Z1655168 2006 periodical issue 2006 pg. 67-72
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    y separately published work icon The Rest Is Weight : Stories Jennifer Mills , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2012 Z1862685 2012 selected work short story

    'Endorsed by Cate Kennedy, this is an eagerly awaited first story collection from an acclaimed young writer.

    'The award-winning stories in The Rest is Weight reflect Mills’ years in Central Australia, as well as her travels to Mexico, Russia and China. The collection displays a confident diversity of narrative voices and a brevity in style.

    'In 'The wind and other children', a girl searches for her lost grandmother while her parents quarrel at home; in 'Extra time', a man contemplates inertia after toxic contamination changes life in a remote Australian town; a woman imagines a mother’s love for her autistic son in 'The air you need'; and in 'Hello, Satan', a boy awaits his destiny at a roundabout at midnight, on the edge of a small town.

    'In exploring the human, Jennifer Mills deftly weaves themes of longing, alienation, delusion, resilience, and love. Sometimes dreamy and hypnotic, sometimes comic and wry, these stories leave their mark. Collected or on their own, Mills’ fiction is both a joy and a wonder to read.' (Publication summary)

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2012
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