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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 'In Country'
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I've just switched off the engine, killing the lights, when someone's banging on the car roof. A rangy young man in ragged shorts and t-shirt appears beside me, brandishing a bush-knife and wrenching at the locked door, his mouth open in a fury of yelling. In front, a boy about sixteen holds a rock as big as his head, poised to plunge it through the windshield. The lamp on my cabin's front porch - so near yet so far - backlights a third youth squinting through the passenger window's dark glass. He has a gun...'  (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Social Alternatives vol. 38 no. 1 2019 16541921 2019 periodical issue 2019 pg. 30-34
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