The Butt (2014)
“The container sat beneath a stand of gum trees, gurgling. Leaking coolant dripped between its steel ribs, ribs that were warty with paint blisters. The demountable was a silvery aluminium capsule, humanized – if that was the right word – by net curtains in its portholes, and a striped awning staked out in front of the door.
Tom stopped the car by the Huffermans’ pick-up and got out.
Behind the camp a network of dry watercourses scored the land: veins on the palm of a giant hand. In the ...mid distance, the fingers of this hand twisted into the spurs of a rocky mountain that rose some 5,000 feet above the desert floor. Mount Parnassus. A hot, gritty zephyr came scooting down from its peak, stinging Tom’s sore lips.
‘Not a lot, but we call it home,’ said Dave Hufferman, clambering down from his pick-up. He was altogether relaxed – at home, in fact – but his wife bolted to the back of the demountable and began to take down what appeared to be enormous towelling diapers from a clothesline.MoreLess
Tom stopped the car by the Huffermans’ pick-up and got out.
Behind the camp a network of dry watercourses scored the land: veins on the palm of a giant hand. In the ...mid distance, the fingers of this hand twisted into the spurs of a rocky mountain that rose some 5,000 feet above the desert floor. Mount Parnassus. A hot, gritty zephyr came scooting down from its peak, stinging Tom’s sore lips.
‘Not a lot, but we call it home,’ said Dave Hufferman, clambering down from his pick-up. He was altogether relaxed – at home, in fact – but his wife bolted to the back of the demountable and began to take down what appeared to be enormous towelling diapers from a clothesline.MoreLess
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