THE RAT raised its head off the floor and glared at me through its bulging bug eyes. It raised its top lip baring a row of immaculately polished teeth. I narrowed my eyes back at it. Before I could raise the mug to my mouth the rat was at my feet, growling and biting at the cuffs of my trousers. [...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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