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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Caring
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The narrator, who works as a carer, has been stealing pills from their clients regularly. He is drained by the job and no longer sees the point in it as his clients seem to never improve and continue to verbally abuse him. Having stolen enough pills, he commits suicide at a lookout.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Multiple sclerosis, other physical disabilities.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view First person (not the disabled characters).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Long Paddock Writing Disability vol. 76 no. 2 2016 10762465 2016 periodical issue 2016
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