Nightwalkers 2013
An 11-year-old girl wrote a poem about loneliness in a school yearbook. Decades later, her brother found it. Loneliness Siv Parker aged 11 years. He ambled slowly across the dim lit room to the door, His old and tattered shoes padded heavily on the floor. The light streamed in, as the door opened, creaking and crying as if in pain. He looked out hopefully, but it had just been a bush against the window pane. He turned and walked, his eyes downcast, as he remembered the things that had happened in the past. ... Nightwalkers was first published in Review of Australian Fiction , Volume 8, Issue 6 (2013). Nightwalkers Siv Parker They were all sorts united, under his pall. Left alone, their addictions might have faltered. But that became unlikely from the day he walked through the door. The Haven sat about halfway along a long narrow street of renovated terrace houses. It hunkered down on a site deeper than it was wide, like a broken toot...
