Diamonds in the Mud And Other Stories (2006)
“It is a huge space of no space where she works with strangers, making calls to strangers, selling the unsaleable. Students and pensioners work beside her, manning the phones. Groups have formed. The smoker pack cleave, leave their butts on the roof at lunchtime. The Greenies bunch, eat greens, speak conservation. Sally sits with the leftovers, with old Ron, and the youth with pimples, with big Sue, and a lady with varicose veins.
Her work area is small, her salary is small, Sally James is small..., but her dreams are not. She has come to big, bad Melbourne to find love.
Her mother is in hospital again. Sally’s weekend is spent in Bendigo, her days at the hospital, her nights with Ross. He has loved her forever, now he’s pushing for marriage.
On Monday morning she leaves Bendigo at six-thirty, leaves Ross’s warm, safe bed and drives away. Stressed by the traffic, wearied by a weekend of will I, won’t I, she is running for the lift when she sees him. He holds the door for her, smiles, and Sally knows what she wants.MoreLess
Her work area is small, her salary is small, Sally James is small..., but her dreams are not. She has come to big, bad Melbourne to find love.
Her mother is in hospital again. Sally’s weekend is spent in Bendigo, her days at the hospital, her nights with Ross. He has loved her forever, now he’s pushing for marriage.
On Monday morning she leaves Bendigo at six-thirty, leaves Ross’s warm, safe bed and drives away. Stressed by the traffic, wearied by a weekend of will I, won’t I, she is running for the lift when she sees him. He holds the door for her, smiles, and Sally knows what she wants.MoreLess
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