Featured in

  • Published 20251104
  • ISBN: 978-1-923213-13-5
  • Extent: 196pp
  • Paperback, eBook, PDF

DOUG CLOUDY WAS desperate for it. He hadn’t been laid since the backpackers came through town all those years ago. Even then, he’d only got lucky because he was the designated driver – a social class that even the tourists could sniff out as lowly and pitiful – just as he’d been every weekend since parole.

THE YOUNG CROATIAN had taken pity on him.

Already a subscriber? Sign in here

If you are an educator or student wishing to access content for study purposes please contact us at griffithreview@griffith.edu.au

Share article

About the author

Alexander Bennetts

Alexander Bennetts is a writer and music-maker in Melbourne, Australia. His work has been published in Meanjin, Westerly and Going Down Swinging, among others. 

More from this edition

pink background with pink woman

That J-Lo dress

Non-fiction HAVE YOU EVER visited a museum, art gallery or very posh shop where you longed to touch the items on display but, for whatever reason...

Sanford Meisner

Fiction TO HELP THE Year 10s reconnect with their craft after the September school holidays, Hale has them do Viewpoints. They pad around the room...

Behind the seams

Audio THESE PODCAST EPISODES, which you can listen to via the links below, gather the voices of just a few individuals among the many tens...

Stay up to date with the latest, news, articles and special offers from Griffith Review.