Kelso, Sylvia (2004) Slick. [Creative Work]

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[Extract] WHEN I FIRST SAW IT, I THOUGHT SOMETHING HAD DIED. And in my waterhole. At least, my favorite waterhole, the best one on the place, and the place has been ours since granddad's time. Then I thought, pollution. Those Neanderthal pig-shooters have been down here again, lighting fires and dropping beercans at their backsides and slopping the waterhole full of oil. Because it looked like an oil slick. A raggedy, ten-foot wide oil slick, not quite above the water, not quite under it. Dull yellow, bobbly, undulating, sort of. Like a mat of old wattle flowers. Or the half-submerged rafts of yellow gloop you see, out near the islands, when the coral spawns.

Item ID:	36964
Item Type:	Creative Work (Original Work - Textual Work)
ISSN:	0893-5580
Keywords:	neanderthal; science fiction; fantasy; adventure; Australian author; North Queensland author
Date Deposited:	13 Jan 2015 04:25
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