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Else Fitzgerald

Else Fitzgerald

Else Fitzgerald is a student in RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing program. She lives in Carlton and misses the ocean very much.

'A Body of Water', a new story by Else Fitzgerald

ABR Fiction 09 August 2012
Behind the houses the river slides away all night. Buttery and resinous, the air hangs heavy with the river murk, the wet stink of the mudbank. Across the water, the railway sidings with their abandoned boxcars lie quiet, generations of graffiti hiding whatever colour they may have been. Beyond, the ibises stalk the salt flats, reeking brackish plains filled with seawater gone soupy, which the sea ... (read more)