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  • Published 20201103
  • ISBN: 978-1-922212-53-5
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

Click here to listen to Adam Thompson read ‘Sonny’.


ON SOME WINTER mornings in Launceston, the fog doesn’t lift until midday. Today it’s so dense you can see the water droplets hang in mid-air, like rain in suspended animation. Crossing the car park, I turn the collar up on my leather jacket – a poor choice considering the cold and damp, maybe.

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Adam Thompson

Adam Thompson is a Pakana (Tasmanian Aboriginal) man from Launceston. ‘Sonny’ is part of his debut short-story collection, Born Into This, to be published...

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