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Wet Concrete single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1936... 1936 Wet Concrete
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A rich racing car driver uses cigarettes and scotch to cover his fear of racing. His fiancee falls in love with his portrait painter and they marry quickly. The driver falls in love with and marries a female journalist friend. He is then able to give up racing by saying she did not like him putting his life at risk.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Queenslander 19 November 1936 Z1693881 1936 newspaper issue 1936 pg. 10, 48
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