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'Sure enough, she'd drifted farther from the shore than was probably wise.'

A young gap year traveller's brief encounter with mortality.

Release date:

17 September 2014

Duration:

51 seconds

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Short Story Award—ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Short Story Award 2014

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