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The Joker's Birthday single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 The Joker's Birthday
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The Red Brick was a great rolling affair, rough enough to attract brawny truckies. Yet it couldn't be called a truckies' pub. Its patronage was first and foremost that of the Rail yards opposite. The Red Brick was Carl's pub. Every afternoon for the past forty five years, it rocked on its foundations, hurling its sticky stars, squiggles and exclamation marks across the road on silvery tendrils to suck Carl off the platform into its raucous belly...

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Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability

    Hunchbackedness.

    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view Third person.

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