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The Stripey Thing With Four Legs by Brock Watson

The facts as I know them

A circus in town shows a zebra outside the Mullumbimby old Commonwealth bank. No date. Era 1920’s

 

 

The story I imagine

He stared into my eyes and he waited.

He looked at me and then I looked away and then I looked back and he was gone.

 

By Brock Watson (11)

 

 

This Now and Then photo and story was created in an ABC Open NSW North Coast workshop (abc.net.au/open) in partnership with the Brunswick Valley Historical Society and the Northern Rivers Writers' Centre (NRWC). Courtesy of the NRWC workshop participants were guided through the writing task by author Alan Close who invited the group to imagine themselves into their Then photos. The result is this creative collection of Now and Then "the story as I imagine...."

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Uploaded on March 31, 2012
Taken on March 31, 2012