David Carlin
David Carlin’s books include The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet (2019), 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (2019), The Abyssinian Contortionist (2015) and Our Father Who Wasn’t There (2010), and two anthologies of new Asian and Australian writing, The Near and the Far, Vols 1&2 (2016, 2019). David is Professor of Creative Writing and co-director of WrICE and the non/fictionLab at RMIT University, and the. Co-President of the international NonfictioNOW Conference.
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Then came the day another week began, and it was a new month, and there was no end in sight. The dream, the shock, the is-this-really-happening: all of this started to wear off and at the same time started to intensify. New words and phrases emerged: hibernation, the other side, the bridge. And the old words—images of war remained top of the pops. This unseen enemy within, the frontline troops, our heroes.