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    The convict box short story by Nadia Wheatley

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    The Convict Box - 201610261445

    Diunggah oleh

    Jay Zhong
    The convict box short story by Nadia Wheatley

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    THE NIGHT TOLKIEN DIED you say? "Tha érthis mazé mou Yaya asks. Would you come with me? "Where?" Xe shouts against the wind. ‘Come with you where?" Yaya grins wickedly, but there is longing in her voice as she replies in her broadest Australian, ‘If I go back to where I come from..! ‘Asfalds" Xenia agrees. ‘Vevéos!‘ Of course! Certainly 1 will, But not just to Kriti, Xenia thinks. I want to go to ‘Samos ~ sacred to the goddess Juno — and to Delos and to Paros, and to Kalymnos, rich in honey ... ‘Then Xenia remembers Yaya's tricks of the past, and she gives her grandmother a hard look. ‘But if I go with you to Kriti, to meet the relatives, I'm going as I am, okay? She tosses her head, and half a dozen earrings made of wire and feathers and bottletops tangle to- gether. ‘Don't expect me to assimilate! . ‘Entaxi, Xenia, okay, (se eléfthero poult’ You're free as abird . Yaya laughs and slips her arm around her grand- daughter's black velvet waist. I bet you'll show those Cretan girls a thing or two! 238, THE CONVICT BOX Some of this story is about me, and some of it is about a fictional person. As I'm not absolutely sure where the reality stops and the invention starts, I'll try to put it down just as it happened. 1am sixteen years old and | live in Katoomba, New South Wales, and my name is Dan Baker. (Or it mostly is, But you'll see.) It was last winter when it started (it's the morning of 31 December now) and maybe I should say that last winter was really bad I don’t mean the weather (though it gets pretty Dlizzardy up here in thé Blue Mountains), but Mum. 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So that was then, this is now. (Thats the title of an Sk Hinton novel that [got for Christmas, but it fits this just as well.) 31 December, and its countdown to blastoff. 1 said at the beginning that I'm not always sure where the reality stops and the invention starts (how did Mum make up the same. weird priest's name that | did?) and since that time I've sometimes felt kind of haunted, but in 4 B00d way, by this bloke I made up. | mean that Since then Ive felt Seamus in me, known him as part of tne And through him I know that Ican do it alone. Just ‘me and my piece of wire, my nails, my broken mirror, iy tin whistle. Or me and a pair of Mambo shorts, my Swissarmy knife, my tape deck, my skateboard. At the same time, I know that because I can do itt don't have to. Yet, Like late that winter's night, after 'd gone to bed, 1 woke and the wind had stopped and the silence was thick “round the house. I looked out the window, and the snow had started I went to the back door, put my 258 THE convict sox Bumboots on, so I could go rushing out into it, like I used to do when I was a little kid. And then I looked at the snow that was starting to cover the ground in perfect newness, and I thought: it'l be even deeper if I leave it till the morning. Now I say to Mum, ‘Let's catch the train down to Sydney this arvo. We can go to Rozelle, see Dad play .” ‘Okay; she says, but what about all your stuff?’ ‘Tm staying’ Lsay. My mum isn't very good at showing what she’s feeling so she just starts shifting the junk From the floor back into the shelves and cupboard. We work for a while together in silence but when I pick up my tape deck I accidentally press Play, and Jimi Hendrix blasts out. Mum turns to.me now with a look on her face as if ‘Are You Experienced?’ is the best thing she's ever heard. ‘Welcome home, Seamus Murphy; she says. “romisue MOK woddns 01 3x9} oy oy] oouaprAs Pury {LOTS SUT TPE drystorjay s,ureq] oge seyUT Nos we IVA “OL -S1oys simp ut payordap are SurStoj9q puwe aoueydance Jo sauioyp oxp voy UTEyX| ‘upd gsquared mos wpim stro|qosd mepruns pey 1Aa NOX oAvy 10 NOK OG *g us 18q 0} sBuyjaoy 204 Suyssardxo

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