Harriet Lee-Merrion

No light could work its way into Kelsey’s condo after four, so that’s when she held the baby and checked email. She never received much.

One day, I drove the hundred miles east to visit T at Ironwood and was denied visitation. The clerk told me there was no record of my request. Never mind that I had been visiting my son there every Saturday for five years.

There’s no such thing as bushfire season anymore. It’s all year round, and even now in winter there is a total fire ban in place.