Shearers' Motel (1992)

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Skeins of silvery water from the saturated ground channelled the low parts. Ruts scarred the track, the creekbank was scoured, and paddocks of flattened clover went downside up. The causeway leading to the house was washed under, leaving dangling gaps of reinforced concrete. He drove carefully across, nosing forward and touching the brakes, getting out to check that the load of goods in the mud-heavy truck wasn’t too much. He still had the carryover stores from Gograndli Station in the back. He... calculated he’d made a round trip of two thousand kilometres with them.
‘What did you bring me?’ demanded Irene, pulling at his arm and wanting to be piggybacked everywhere. He produced an orange bin-liner bulging with uneven shapes while Sharon laughed at his dog: Sadie was sleeker and dumpier than when she had left, leaning back on her haunches and accepting the tribute of hands to lick and fingers to entangle her ears. ‘You’ve looked after her.’   He upended the garbage bag on the verandah table, spilling out parrot feathers, wildflowers, a bleached bird’s skull, worn shards of green bottle glass, bits of iron pyrites and a knuckle of hardened clay with a twist of crumbly opal running through.
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