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- Title: Once Removed (Short Story)
- Author : David (Australian novelist) Francis
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Reference,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,Language Arts & Disciplines,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 78 KB
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Way out the back where the wedding bush grows and mosquitoes breed in the gullies, there's a weatherboard house with bay windows, the place where my English grandmother died. But it sat on her farm at Moorooduc then, among the bracken and ti-tree, pardelotes nested in the sandy cliffs, where my grandmother died in the four-poster bed and I dreamt there were bears in the hall, marauding. Suddenly there was no more snoring and I could sleep. She'd gone to be with her Jesus. The cottage was moved by my father, in slices, and patched together in the Tooradin bush, set on a rise facing north. Its bay window eyes stared out to the Pakenham Hills, as if watching for fires. I was shipped along with it, ostensibly in one piece, back to my parents, to this big brick homestead that stands among the whining cypresses, where my mother now lives alone. Where magpies fly down the chimneys, her black and tan dog lying in wait to hunt them down, land them stunned and breathless on the hardwood floor. My mother waits too, giddied by the prospect.
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