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First Published 2018
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Cover image: Ben McLaughlin Private Collection Wilson Stephens
Fine Art, London/Bridgeman Images

Author image: Kevin Rabalais
Cover and book design: Peter Lo
Printed in China by Everbest

‘The Bengal Monkey’ originally appeared in Island #131, 2013 and ‘Avulsion’
appeared in Meanjin, Volume 77, Issue 2, Winter 2017. ‘Among the Ruins’, in
an earlier version titled ‘A Dead End’, was shortlisted in the 2013 Viva la Novella
competition, and when titled ‘Bruno Kramzer’, appeared in an edition of FLSmalls
2013, Finlay Lloyd. ‘HB’ appeared in an earlier version in Flashing the Square,
Spineless Wonders, 2014; ‘Dead Sun’ in The Review of Australian Fiction, Volume
11, Issue 2, 2014; ‘Memories of Jane Doe’ appeared in an earlier version in The
Great Unknown, Spineless Wonders, 2013; ‘Amy in #12’ in Canary Press #3, 2013;
‘Punctuated Air’ in The Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 19, Issue 5, 2016;
‘The Rothko’ in an earlier version in Meanjin, Volume 73, Issue 4, Summer 2014
and ‘Butcherbird’ originally appeared in The Big Issue, Fiction Edition 2014.

A cataloguing-entry is available from the
National Library of Australia: trove.nla.gov.au
ISBN: 978-1-925760-21-7