I enjoyed the pub last night, chatting with old friends, and I wish Ellie had joined us. But I should have listened to her, drank less, and popped a blocker. I’ll get no sympathy from Ellie today, waking with a hangover and viral thoughts I feel compelled to share.
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I’m a lone-wolf superhero. Heck, I’m not called Solo Shield for nothing! So, I wasn’t keen when Long Vision suggested we buddy up as a dynamic duo. “I don’t know, Viz,” I replied. “Neither of us wants to play Robin to Batman.” “It won’t be like the comics, Solo,” he asserted. “We’ll be equals.”
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The first thing in the morning text message was a punch in the guts. “Sorry, Colin. I love you, but we’re on different journeys. Let’s stay friends.” I blinked twice to clear my eyes and was about to respond, “Are you serious?” but threw the phone against the bedroom wall instead.
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I once wrote a short story titled The Lost Hour that opens: “You know what it’s like when you lose something. It’s always in the last place you look. But how do you find a lost hour? It’s not like it can slip down the back of a sofa like coins or keys!” I’ve lost a few things but never imagined losing a story!
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In May 1992, the local literary news was full of Tim Winton’s success and his novel, Cloudstreet. I thought it an omen. Winton was thirty-one-years-old, and I was thirty. He’d grown up in W.A., and so had I. He’d just won his second Miles Franklin Award, and I was having a second crack at being a writer!
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