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A young woman who, in a playful accident years earlier, paralysed her sister takes her grief and regret out to a roadhouse on the Nullarbor Plain, where she encounters a man who, impossibly, sloughs black dust from his body.
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Writing Disability in Australia
Type of disability Paraplegia (from a fall). Type of character Secondary. Point of view Unconfirmed.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Awards
- 2013 finalist Locus Awards — Novelette
- 2012 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Science Fiction Division — Best Short Story
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