My Writerly Self

Miss Handcock

Karen Eastland January 20, 2020

Grade three we were living back in Perth. I was at a new school and a couple of incidentals occurred…

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Corporal Punishment

Karen Eastland January 16, 2020

Change of scene. Dad worked on the mines, as I've previously said, and we all moved to Kambalda for a…

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The Potato Underground

Karen Eastland January 15, 2020

I can't say for certain if it was the very late 1960s, or the very early 1970s, but Western Australian…

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The Accusation

Karen Eastland January 14, 2020

It was a funny old house house, emphasis on the old. I recall either overhearing, or witnessing myself, the first…

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Life and Death

Karen Eastland January 14, 2020

I was told that during my birth, I was breach and my father's wife, and I, had died for a…

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The Shower Incident

Karen Eastland January 12, 2020

Apparently I was a "bad" child, and was always told by my fathers wife, and her mother, that I was…

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