Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 10, Issue 3 by Patrick Holand

Author:Patrick Holand
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781922171597
Publisher: Review of Australian Fiction

Saint Wolfhelm smiled. He took a clipboard out of his robe, flipped to a page near the back and drew a line through it, one corner to the other.

‘The Peace of God be with you, Richard Dawkins.’

What Falls Away

Josephine Rowe

Somebody has that job, but we never catch sight of him. In the morning we’ll roll out to bloody drag marks at the side of the highway. Doesn’t matter how early I get up, dismantle the tent. Knock on the door of the Cardinal to rattle Thea awake before going in to put coffee on the stove.

‘You decent?’ I’ll call out.

‘Me?’ She’ll call back. ‘Sure, I’m decent,’ in her best Rita Hayworth. I’ll climb in and she’ll be sitting up, almost queenly in the unmade bed. Her voice will still be husky with sleep, and while I wrestle the ancient gas range into life, she’ll slip my boots on over her pyjama pants and trudge out to the brick shower block. Lope back zipped into skinny jeans with a silk scarf tied over her damp hair just as I’m pouring the coffee into travel mugs.

I’ll ease the truck onto the recurring dream of the Eyre Highway as early as seven, sometimes before, but he’ll have already been through—some poor bastard hefting shovelfuls of last night’s marsupial gore into the tray of a tonner, and continuing on across the Nullarbor. Going home to his wife and kids smelling of dead things.

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