Below Wesley Hospital there are steep stone steps down the riverbank to the bike path. That is where a creek (now a culvert) once entered the river. That is where the Amity weighed anchor. That is where I picture the tense encounter between my grandfather and Charles Henry Turner. That is where a man was shot for stealing a hat. That is where, in a room high on the slopes above, my mother died.
The turbulent river rushes on.
Everything flows, wrote Heraclitus, and nothing stays fixed.
Acknowledgments
These stories, in slightly different form, have been published in the following literary journals:
‘Blind Date’ in The Monthly, Melbourne, Australia, June 2005, pp 46-49 (Included in The Best Australian Stories 2005)
‘Republic of Outer Barcoo’ in Griffith Review, December 2010.
‘Salvage’ (as ‘Weird People’) in Overland (Melbourne, Australia) Sept 2010.
‘The Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman’ in Nimrod International Journal (USA), Vol. 49, no. 1, Fall 2005, pp. 142-150. (Finalist for Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction)
‘Hurricane Season’ in Sunday Arts Magazine, The Independent, London, Jan 25, 2004. Included in The Best Australian Stories 2004.
Also in The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection, 2011.
‘Moon River’ in One Book, Many Brisbanes: Fourth Anthology of Brisbane Stories, Brisbane City Council, 2009.
About the Author
Janette Turner Hospital grew up in Brisbane and was educated at Wilston State School, Mitchelton High, the University of Queensland and Kelvin Grove Teachers’ College. She taught high school north of Cairns, but since her post-graduate degrees in Canada, she has taught in universities in Canada, Australia, England, France and the United States. She has won a number of prizes for her eight novels and three short-story collections, which have been published in numerous languages. In 2003, she won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and the Patrick White Award, and received a Doctor of Letters honoris causa from the University of Queensland. For twelve years, she held an endowed chair as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. In 2010, she was a Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York. She continues to teach a course at the University of South Carolina as Carolina Distinguished Professor Emerita.
Other Books by Janette Turner Hospital
The Ivory Swing
The Tiger in the Tiger Pit
Borderline
Dislocations
Charades
Isobars
The Last Magician
Collected Stories
Oyster
North of Nowhere, South of Loss
Due Preparations for the Plague
Orpheus Lost
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Hospital, Janette Turner, 1942-
Forecast: turbulence: short stories and moon river, a memoir / Janette
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Hospital, Janette Turner, 1942-
Autobiography.
Short stories, Australian.
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