The Closure Company

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  • Published 20210504
  • ISBN: 978-1-922212-59-7
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

THEIR SIGNS USED a distinctive shade of blue. It was a colour they’d patented, like Tiffany Blue, though the shade was warmer; it almost made her feel happy about being sad. She’d seen the advertisement flash across the screen at the train station in Kings Cross. Fleeting: on the screen one moment, dissolving the next.

The Closure Company, a voice crooned. Let go. Let go. Let go.

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Gretchen Shirm

Gretchen Shirm is the author of a collection of short stories, Having Cried Wolf, for which she was named a 2011 Sydney Morning Herald...

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