Number 20: Heat Exposure

Included in Collection 3: The Last Ten Tales

Shortlisted for The Tasmanian Writer’s Prize 2022

Jono is facing a long shift with Ed Roberts, the eating, sleeping, grumbling machine, when Comms tasks them with backing up a single officer on Moreton Island. In an instant his outlook improves, he’d work with the devil himself if the shift included a few hours on a boat.

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