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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Silent Partner
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The 2010 New Mardi Gras/NSW Short Story Competition : Theme Making History www.gay e-books.com.au , 2010 7984769 2010 anthology short story

    A collection of short stories containing the top entries.

    www.gay e-books.com.au , 2010
    pg. 15-16 Section: Highly Commended
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Dreams They Forgot Emma Ashmere , Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2020 19557933 2020 selected work short story

    'Two sisters await the tidal wave predicted for 1970s Adelaide after Premier Don Dunstan decriminalises homosexuality. An interstate family drive is complicated by the father's memory of sighting UFOs. Two women drive from Melbourne to Sydney to see the Harbour Bridge before it's finished. An isolated family tries to weather climate change as the Doomsday Clock ticks.

    'Emma Ashmere's stories explore illusion, deception and acts of quiet rebellion. Diverse characters travel high and low roads through time and place - from a grand 1860s Adelaide music hall to a dilapidated London squat, from a modern Melbourne hospital to the 1950s Maralinga test site, to the 1990s diamond mines of Borneo.

    'Undercut with longing and unbelonging, absurdity and tragedy, thwarted plans and fortuitous serendipity, each story offers glimpses into the dreams, limitations, gains and losses of fragmented families, loners and lovers, survivors and misfits, as they piece together a place for themselves in the imperfect mosaic of the natural and unnatural world.' (Publication summary)

    Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2020
    pg. 123-127
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