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Narrelle M Harris. Scar Tissue
Introduction
SCAR TISSUE
LOST AND FOUND: CHANGELING
HOORFROST
LOST AND FOUND: THE SOLO RAPTURE
LOST AND FOUND: WANDERLUST
WORDS FAIL
LOST AND FOUND: PLOT BUNNY
FAITHFUL
PEACEFUL
LOST AND FOUND: JOURNEY
BAD NIGHT AT BITE CLUB
LOST AND FOUND: HOREHOUND AND FLOUR
THE PATH
LOST AND FOUND: BOUQUET
THE BEEKEEPER’S CHILDREN
LOST AND FOUND: PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
SHADOW ON MY SHOULDER
LOST AND FOUND: LONG LIVE THE KING
A SONG FOR HELL
THE CHRISTMAS CARD MYSTERY
DEATH’S DOOR
CONSTANT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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This collection is inspired by two ideas: hidden histories (both real and imagined) and scars. Those ideas can be separate or intertwined.
Walking around any town, any village, any city, I’m always aware of its small-picture unknown history. Who has walked this way before me? What worker, thousands of years ago, paused at the foot of this same pyramid, when it was still being piled stone upon stone? What Roman soldier took a breath as he stood by this wall when this great city was Londinium?
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‘Now,’ he says. ‘The facts.’
Mrs Braithwaite, getting angry, starts to tell him about the drug paraphernalia found on Amelia, and possible police charges. Lachlan shushes her. ‘Let Chloe tell the story.’
