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1 y separately published work icon All the Missing Children Zahid Gamieldien , Ultimo : Ultimo Press , 2024 27284764 2024 single work novel crime

'Ilene, a working class mother, is struggling to survive and desperate to reconnect with her children, Jack and Lonnie, in the aftermath of a near fatal tragedy.

'But her children vanish, setting off a chain reaction within the community.

'Suspended detective Omar helps out with the investigation, uncovering disquieting clues, but he keeps getting pulled away by a dangerous cold case.

'Benji, a recovering addict, finds peace by breeding lorikeets and caring for his mother, only to have his clean life upended by a stranger’s menacing threat.

'Nera, a city lawyer grieving on a country farm, wants to find out who killed one of her animals and is faced with increasingly strange and unsettling answers.

'In this gripping tale of human frailty and the otherworldly, each of the characters must confront the mystery of what really happened to Jack and Lonnie.'  (Publication summary)
1 Holiday Zahid Gamieldien , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2019 2019; (p. 135-138)
1 Asya, On Her Fortieth Wedding Anniversary Zahid Gamieldien , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 158 2019; (p. 78-83)
1 Attribution Zahid Gamieldien , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 222.5 2016;
1 Three Deaths Zahid Gamieldien , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 75 no. 4 2016; (p. 142-147) 'Ali dies first, in 1996, or perhaps it's 1997. He's been travelling through Italy and Greece by himself, on a sabbatical from the academic world that he has come to loathe (he's a professor at York). The pressure to publish work that he finds palimpsestic is becoming excruciating; beneath the words that he prints, he can see the ghosts of the ones he's struck through and erased. He has no new ideas and finds his colleagues in the humanities facile. They can no longer think for themselves, he believes, and he does not exempt himself from this criticism...' (Publication abstract)
1 A Creature of Intelligence Zahid Gamieldien , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Tincture Journal , Summer no. 12 2015; (p. 45-61)
1 The Boy Who Believed in Magic Zahid Gamieldien , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 18 2015;
1 Pyrene Zahid Gamieldien , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 220 2015; (p. 37-44)

'This happened when I was a young man, just shy of my twenty-first birthday. All my life, I’d lived in a New South Wales country town; I won’t say which one, only that it was within four hours of Sydney and has since been abandoned. The town was a combination of abattoirs and grain and white collars. If you listened hard enough, you could hear the cries of a million cows in the throes of death...' (37)
1 Looking into a Beech Wood Shack Zahid Gamieldien , 2007 single work short story
— Appears in: What You Do and Don't Want : UTS Writers' Anthology 2007 2007; (p. 29-39) 40 : Forty Years of the UTS Writers' Anthology 2021; (p. 148-157)
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