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'Luke Johnson’s debut collection, Ferocious Animals, explores Australia and Australian national identity in all of its complexities and contradictions. It comprises thirteen short stories that embroil deeply flawed characters in tragic circumstances of loss and grief, sexual violence, neglect, abuse and infidelity while offering rare glimpses of compassion and tenderness. Through narration that activates the vulnerabilities of childhood, the turbulence of adolescence, and the dysfunction of adulthood, Johnson weaves compelling stories that explore innocence, indecency, and the generative spaces between, in prose that is equal parts delicate and brutal. At its heart, Ferocious Animals is a collection compiled under a framework of collisions, where the bright euphoria of human joy, connection, and intimacy meets and intersects with darker revelations of what horrors humans can inflict on one another.'
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Epigraph: After their train comes to an unexpected and screeching halt, a man and woman trade theories about the cause of the commotion. When the man asks if she thinks they might have hit something, the woman mocks him, ‘Maybe we hit something, he says. Ha! I thought you were supposed to know a thing or two about collisions’ (p. 18).
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A Thing or Two about Collisions
Text : Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs