New Australian Fiction 2020: ‘Orchestra of Animals’
Katerina Gibson
A Victorian funnel-web spider, black and round like a beetle, scuttles out from the metal rung on the windowsill as she slides it open. She stands there, coffee in hand, looking at its thick latex-like legs until her cat leaps onto the counter and the funnel-web retreats inside the windowsill cavity. She pulls the cat’s […]