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1 Do Not Tap the Glass Lucy Adams , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Autumn no. 111 2018; (p. 2-3) 'Each morning on my way to work, I took a photograph of the same dog. As I trundled down Little Lonsdale Street, there he always was behind a shopfront-style window, lying on a sheepskin rug, his stout shaggy body twitching amid pupmares. One day, in child’s handwriting, words appeared on the glass: ‘This is Sid. He is 17 years old. Please do not tap the glass.’ As weeks passed, more and more paint began to spread across the window, day by day, until it covered the entire surface of the glass, sparing only, to my relief, a small peephole through which I continued to view Sid. Passers-by, noticing me crouching by his rugside, would sometimes approach and tap on the window. I’d swallow my fury at this flagrant violation of the rules. Sid never awoke, though. I witnessed him conscious only once, his bulging eyes clouded over with prophecy or, I later realised, cataracts. The very next day, Sid was gone. He did not appear in the window again.' 

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1 Creatures of the Night Lucy Adams , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Summer no. 110 2017-2018; (p. 4-5) 'It's reported that some nights, as a young child, I would sit bolt-upright and say, ‘Ouch,’ then immediately jack-knife back down. Some days, I would drag a paralysed leg behind me, only slightly confused to be shunting through the sandpit in the manner of a mad scientist’s assistant. I have only brief fashes of my parents looming over my bedside, partially obscured by darkness, and no memory of the syringe in my father’s hand.' 

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1 Penguin Dads and Other Animal Protectors Lucy Adams , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Spring no. 109 2017; (p. 4-5) 'I've felt like a penguin dad lately—even more so than usual—ever since the government announced the postal vote on marriage equality was going ahead. I sometimes tell the Voiceworks editorial committee (EdComm) I would balance them on my feet, like an egg(comm), beneath my soft downy belly, and trundle to the edge of the Antarctic if it meant protecting them from glacial winds. I’ve come to accept I overuse animal metaphors, and all metaphors. They serve the purpose of letting people know my human feelings without the drawback of being properly human-style vulnerable.'  (Introduction)
1 Socks on the Beach Lucy Adams , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Winter no. 108 2017; (p. 4-5) 'There's drool collecting in a pool on my pillow. I have headphones in my ears, my laptop open on the bed. From my prone position, a girl’s face appears rotated ninety degrees clockwise. ‘Ymlacio,’ she whispers down the left headphone and into my left ear. This means ‘relax’ in Welsh. Then she whispers, ‘Cysgu’— ‘sleep’ into my right. LauraLemurex ASMR will go on to brush the binaural microphone, cap and uncap a series of lidded items, tap her video game collection, and go to town on a squishy sphere whose function is ambiguous. I hunt for increasingly obscure videos that will cater to my increasingly niche interests: finger fluttering, ear cupping, fabric scratching, page flipping, unintelligible whispering. I do it in secret. I am an ear pervert.' 

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1 Living Fossils Lucy Adams , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Autumn no. 107 2017; (p. 4-5) Ever since Egon Spengle first proclaimed it in Ghostbusters (1984), the murmurings of ‘print is dead’ have amplified  to an unrelenting tinnitus. In the meantime, we’ve suffered many casualties of technological obsolescence: we’ve lost the unique joy of hour-long sibling-fights at Network Video over whether you’ll play it safe with National Treasure for the third time or risk it all on Blade: Trinity; the satisfaction of hitting ‘record’ on the cassette player at the precise moment Crazy Town’s ‘Butterfly’ kicks of; the mesmeric ride of staring at the Windows 3D Pipes screensaver for so long that you come to believe that you are, in fact, controlling it with your mind.' (Introduction)
1 Invisible Drafts Lucy Adams , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Summer no. 106 2016-2017; (p. 4-5) When I decided to start watching The West Wing on the night of the US presidential election I was aware I was indulging in fantasy—what better antidote to the latest of this year’s global calamities than the nostalgic embrace of the gentle, optimistic Democratic administration that never was—but I wasn’t prepared for the utter absurdity of this scene.'

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1 Positive Feedback Loop Lucy Adams , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Spring no. 105 2016; (p. 4-5) 'It was a FrIday afternoon when Professor Charles approached my desk, placed upon it a large book and a piece of paper and said, ‘Have a go at mapping this.’ The book was The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, 6th Edition and the paper depicted a coronal cross-section of a rat brain. As a seventeen-year-old ostensibly employed in his ofce to scan things, I was unqualifed for this particular task.'  (Introduction)
1 Surviving the Apocalypse Lucy Adams , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Winter no. 104 2016; (p. 4-5) 'Each morning, after dusting the brimstone of my boots and zipping up my hazmat suit, I strike out into the acid fog, skipping over toxic waste puddles, on my way to the Voiceworks headquarters. The journey has felt perilous at times, what with the apocalypse still hanging in the air.'

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1 Flux Lucy Adams , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Autumn no. 103 2016; (p. 8-9) 'I didn’t want the theme of this issue to be ‘Bang’. There’s a sense of finality that didn’t sit right with me. It’s the sound of something ending.'

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1 25 y separately published work icon Voiceworks Kat Muscat (editor), Elizabeth Flux (editor), Lucy Adams (editor), Mira Schlosberg (editor), Adalya Nash Hussein (editor), 1988 East Melbourne : Express Media , 1988- Z1321288 1988 periodical (47 issues) A periodical featuring the work of young Australians in the 14-24 age group. Includes short stories, articles, poetry, artwork, comics and photography. Editors serve for a period of two years.
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