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y separately published work icon The Sleepers Almanac No. 9 anthology   short story  
Alternative title: Sleepers Almanac Number Nine
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 The Sleepers Almanac No. 9
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,:Sleepers Publishing , 2014 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Fish Life, Kirsten Tranter , single work short story (p. 247)
An Architecture of Iniquity, Gareth Hipwell , single work short story (p. 261)
The Block, Anicca Maleedy-Main , single work short story (p. 263)
A Language of Silence, Rafael S. W. , single work short story

The narrator is in the midst of relationship troubles: Mel, their deaf girlfriend, refuses to sign to them, only leaving angry post-it notes. Meanwhile, the narrator's parents are on their third re-marriage to each other, and fighting over the renovation of the house they recently bought.

Mel leaves the narrator, and the new house burns down, injuring the narrator's father. The father reveals the house was meant to be for the narrator when their parents passed on. Though Mel returns, there is a silence between them, to the point where the narrator believes they're going deaf too.

 (p. 269)
The Irish Wolfhound, Paul Dee , single work short story (p. 281)
Interior Exterior, Rhett Davis , single work short story (p. 315)
Baby, Katherine Smyrk , single work short story (p. 333)
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