Eve

Female | Age unspecified | Under 3 minutes
Starts on page 4

EXTRACT: It was a Saturday. We lived in the big house next to the Church of England in a leafy suburb. My father was the Minister. My mother ran the Ladies’ Church Auxiliary and I learnt about serving others from them. I’d had my time of rebellion, of fluffy ducks and discoteques, marijuana and midnight swims, but I’d returned to the fold. Even though I was still searching for some sort of freedom, some mad idea of a ‘Girls’ Own’ adventure. Here I was, in the kitchen with my mother, helping ice the cake for my wedding.

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Kathy

Female | Age unspecified | Under 3 minutes
Starts on page 23

EXTRACT: I now work in a Vet's hospital. Often the midnight to dawn shift, and as I walk through the wards, sometimes, in the half light, my sleeping boys look to me as they did thirty years ago. When they had their youth and their innocence. Once I came home, I even married a Vet. I had to wake him up with a broom handle, from a distance, for fear he'd go me with the knife he kept under his pillow as he slept.

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