Sport 34: Winter 2006
Home Fires
Contents
- [untitled] p. 85
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Part 1 — Johnsonville p. 86
- [section] p. 86
- Typo p. 87
- Porridge p. 88
- Mr Flood is an old actor in a brown suit
- Boating p. 89
- May tomorrow be a perfect day
- Handbag p. 90
- Genius p. 91
- Midnight special
- Field Trip p. 92
- Ghost Fish
- Sex p. 93
- Sundays were when the world ended p. 94
- The moment before light disappears p. 95
- Everything was singing p. 97
- Pyrogenic
- Summer p. 98
- Time Tables
- Childhood was wearing thin at the knees p. 99
- Stale bread p. 100
- Mrs Peachum p. 101
- The light that morning was faded like an old bedspread p. 102
- A giant wave p. 103
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Part 2 — Those Brown Flat Lands p. 104
- [section] p. 104
- She moves them to those brown flatlands p. 105
- Flood's farewell
- Cramp p. 106
- Tom p. 107
- Elizabeth
- Amy
- Train p. 108
- French Lessons p. 109
- Her laugh jangles like a wrist of coloured bangles
- Lightmaker p. 110
- Some places unlock the body
- Sketching p. 111
- Miss Janine Sutcliffe comes to dinner p. 112
- Floating, eating lunch
- Song
- Where the sky starts p. 113
- Swallows
- Firestarters p. 114
- The Crash p. 115
- Lego p. 116
- Aftershock
- The storm
- Meteor p. 117
- Weighing p. 119
- Home fires
- He stands in the pantry, curry powder, sweet basil, sticking in his throat p. 121
- Epilogue p. 122