Rural Dreams by Margaret Hickey

Author:Margaret Hickey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MidnightSun Publishing

On the way back, Anna will bury Clint’s wallet deep in a wombat hole. She’ll burn its contents the first chance she can. Back at Baynton’s Hut, Nicole will find a drink bottle under one of the beds in the hut and it will provide no solace. Anna will document the lost backpack in the hut logbook. En route to Patterson’s hut, they’ll meet a group of deer shooters, four men from the Department of Environment. The men will warn them about a strange young man, running back and forth along the mountain path and they’ll offer the use of their satellite phone. At the homelier hut, Louise will sleep fitfully and won’t talk for the rest of the trip. Anna won’t sleep at all. She’ll think about the ring. The ring, the ring. She’ll try to console herself by picturing the bush and the near impenetrable scrub. She’ll hold her stomach and think of her newborn baby and she’ll wish herself back at the farm of her childhood. She’ll try to cry and fail. She’ll find that she doesn’t cry at all. At the end of the walk, they’ll be picked up by Women’s Health and they won’t wave goodbye. They won’t hear from each other again.

Until a year and a half later.

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