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- Virgin Jackson, single work short story fantasy
- Once a Month, On a Sunday, single work short story fantasy
- Night Heron's Curse, single work short story fantasy
- Hunter of Darkness, Hunter of Light, single work short story science fiction
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A Pig's Whisper,
single work
short story
horror
A creepy horror tale of two children lost in the woods.
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Stealing Free,
single work
short story
fantasy
'An almost pseudo-mythological story of a salamander seeking to find freedom from its bargain with a terrible queen' (Ben Payne, Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus)
- Suffer the Little Children, single work short story fantasy
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The Claws of Native Ghosts,
single work
short story
horror
''Claws' takes place in the early days of European colonisation of Western Australia. It's based around a real life event, a slaughter of Aboriginal families by settlers that has become known as 'The Battle of Pinjarra'. Apart from my protagonist, all the human characters in the story are based on real people.'
Source: Interview with Lee Battersby, Graveside Books website, http://gravesidetales.com
Sighted: 17/03/2009 - The Jacaranda Wife, single work short story fantasy
- The Dark Under the Skin, Trudi Canavan (illustrator), single work short story science fiction
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Red Ochre,
single work
short story
science fiction
Fogarty's Animal Show, mistaken for carriers of the DNA plague that turned humans and animals into 'Muties', runs into prejudice that has Murri employee Ian Limrock hospitalised in the Mutie reserve. Drawing analogs between lepers, Aboriginal persecution, and the Muties, Ian finds - or redefines - his roots.
- Passing the Bone, single work short story science fiction