Icarus: Bot

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  • Published 20160802
  • ISBN: 978-1-925355-53-6
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

@goddess: You tweeted the words sink and lower. You sound depressed
@iceBorg: Goddess, I’m falling, tweeting free, from a public library
@goddess: Describe your body in motion, god


WHEN SHE BRAKED at the traffic lights, what did she see? A homeless man…me? Hunched over, cross-legged, red abrasions large enough to map on shrivelled arms, dirty bare feet – a sad thing, communicating with his peeps via permanent marker and a torn piece of cardboard resting against his track pants.

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Gay Lynch

Gay Lynch has worked as a teacher, librarian, editor and academic, and is now an independent research fellow at Flinders University. Her short stories...

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