ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Jolley Prize 2018 (Shortlisted): 'Ruins' by Madelaine Lucas
by Madelaine Lucas •
In the car we wound around the bay, which, on the map, made the shape of an ear with a tear-shaped island off the coast like a jewel earring. My mother and I were going to see the lighthouse out on the cape – or what was left of it anyway, which was not much, she told me, but stones and rubble. Sandstone stump crowning the headland.
Worth documenting though, she said, since we’re staying so close by.
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Comments (3)
Just one thing, shotguns don't have 'bullets'... the have metal pellets in a capsule.
It wouldn't have made a hole in her temple, it would have blown her head to smithereens.