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Contents
- Introduction, single work criticism (p. 1-8)
- In Full Working Order, single work short story (p. 11-20)
- Rosa Perpetua, single work short story (p. 21-26)
- The Heavy Dress, single work short story (p. 31-38)
- The Rumour, single work short story (p. 39-48)
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In Shadows,
single work
short story
(p. 53-62)'Ali, a boat person, risks his life for the land of opportunity - and ends up in a cage.' - (Journeys, p.105)
- Troubled Waters, single work short story (p. 63-66)
- White Sheets, single work short story (p. 69-76)
- What to Have Done, What Not to Have Done, single work short story (p. 77-82)
- The Satisfying Summer of Burton Yglesias, single work short story (p. 85-92)
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The Foxhole,
single work
short story
(p. 93-102)
The narrator recalls an old guilty memory while meditating, and resolves to expose it. As a child, the narrator often played with their uncle, Harry, who had Down syndrome; their mother died in childbirth, leaving Aunty to raise them on their grandparents' farm. Mrs B's son, Andrew, was maimed during the war, leaving him one-armed. He also started to accompany Harry and the narrator.
Harry loved foxes and kept close watch on a fox den in the dam wall. However, one day Andrew comes to kill the foxes; the narrator shouts a warning to Harry at the last minute. Harry accidentally shoots Andrew dead in the struggle. When Aunty arrives at the scene and learns what happened from the narrator, Aunty kills Harry before disguising the scene as a murder-suicide, claiming it would be kinder to Harry.
In the present, after Aunty's death, the narrator is determined to let Mrs B know her son was not a murderer.
- This Old Man, single work short story (p. 107-116)
- Christopher, single work short story (p. 117-122)
- The Things that Lucille Did, single work short story (p. 125-134)
- The Moontreader, single work short story (p. 135-140)
- Yellow, single work short story (p. 143-152)
- The Dead Dog, single work short story (p. 153-156)
