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y separately published work icon Best Summer Stories anthology   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Best Summer Stories
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Black Inc. , 2018 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Petrichor, Chris Womersley , single work short story (p. 218-235)
Crossing Bridges, Aoife Clifford , single work short story (p. 236-247)
What Dreams May Come, Demet Divaroren , single work short story (p. 248-258)
Pushing Back, John Kinsella , single work short story (p. 259-267)
Our Voices, Fierce, Liz Allan , single work short story (p. 268-274)
World Service, Beejay Silcox , single work short story

'If this were a story, it would start with an argument. It would start with Ben and me arguing about something vaguely prescient, something to give the thing that happened a kind of existential echo—a child we wanted to have, or couldn’t have, or used to have. That would work. But the truth is we never wanted children. The truth is that when it happened we were listening to the BBC World Service on the car radio. Two ex-pats and the staticky scraps of empire, the sky heavy with desert grit and dawdling bats.' (Introduction)

 (p. 275-279)
The Walking Thing, Marlee Jane Ward , single work short story (p. 280-304)
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