ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Jolley Prize 2017 (Winner): 'Pheidippides' by Eliza Robertson
by Eliza Robertson •
At the first interview, I sat in a plastic canteen chair while Berkeley lay under a towel and a woman with spiked hair dug into the cords of his thigh. He rested his chin on his forearms so he could talk, his eyes boring into my notebook, as if he could read the questions upside-down from the massage table. His blonde eyebrows faded into his skin and made his forehead look overdeveloped.
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