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The Fish Baby, Tara Goedjen

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

A young mother carries her drooling baby through the parking lot. Shiny cars pass on either side of her as her heels click on the pavement. The baby begins to cry and its face turns red and swollen. The mother hushes............................

Excerpt From Merlinda Bobis’ Novel ‘Fish-Hair Woman’, Merlinda C. Bobis

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Three soldiers, two killed by their own guns, the third by asphyxiation. Under the berries ripening in haste: a crimson chest, a shattered groin, a snapped neck. And no moon, not even a firefly now to light the men’s frozen stare, this attempt to memorise the final tableau so they can take it to the other side. It was stingy dark in the coffee grove, a no-face night. One went by feel alone.

Listen to that night when the soldiers came to take me to the river, and how the coffee grove detained us. Tony, I want you to hear …