HE STANDS before me, wild-eyed, in the centre of the circle, his stance defiant, his breaths shallow. The thought crosses my mind to take Billy aside and shake him into submission. Part of me wants to scream at him, "What the fuck makes you think I am an authority figure?"[...READ ON]

Blackdrifts

First page of BlackdriftsA digital short story by Simon Groth

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Leith hitched a ride in an EH Holden that drifted off the gateway Bridge and into the black slick of a river below. She should be dead. instead, she finds herself in rehabilitation, battling her girlish response to the attentions of her physiotherapist, memories of a childhood crush in the darkness of the Brisbane River, and her own cravings for the comforting blackdrifts of her unconscious.

Originally published in Island magazine.

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