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Michael Blake Michael Blake i(A118864 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Sunny Michael Blake , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 29 July - 4 August 2023;
1 Fell Michael Blake , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 166 2022; (p. 48-51)
1 Thirteen Seconds Michael Blake , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 13-19 August 2022;
1 Foundations Michael Blake , 2021 single work prose
— Appears in: Island , no. 161 2021; (p. 114-117)
1 Breathless Michael Blake , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 152 2018; (p. 66)
1 Forever Underneath Michael Blake , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 148 2017; (p. 12-19)

'It's not the humidity, it's the heat. Keep your furnaces and hell-hinges and Adelaide in December. You wish to know true, suffocating, dehydrating lip-chapping cookery? Go to the establishment formerly known as the Tattersall's Hobart Aquatic Centre in winter. Wear trousers and a cardigan because the outside temperature is hovering between six and nothing degrees Celcius. Stroll in like an executive, dressed like this - a manner you thought sensible - a you will know warmth, writ large and equatorially cloying, if the equator depended on trench-warfare quantities of chlorine to stay clean, Yo will struggle through the conversation with the girls at the front desk without fainting, then run into a guy you went to high school with as you pass the lifeguard station. He is jovial, and apparently unaffected by the appalling heat.' (Introduction)
1 Track Michael Blake , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , June no. 3 2015;
1 Crossroads (or Intersection) Michael Blake , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Transportation : Islands and Cities - A Collection of Short Stories from Tasmania and London 2015;
1 The Good Horse Michael Blake , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction 2012;
1 Not Thrash Metal i "A man through a mangle,", Michael Blake , 2008 single work
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 37 2008; (p. 114)
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