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Chris Womersley

Chris Womersley is the author of several novels, Cairo, Bereft and The Low Road, as well as numerous short stories and occasional reviews and essays. His short fiction has appeared in Granta, Best Australian Stories 2006, 2010 and 2011, Griffith Review and Meanjin.

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Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

A Lovely and Terrible Thing

Chris Womersley

‘For a moment I could not speak. I looked off into the bleak distance, then at this man, and there was something about the sad shake of his head and the way his hair flapped about on his scalp that filled me with unreasonable warmth.’

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