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fiction: the face paintings
shortlisted for the djillong short story competition 2022
the face paintings was shortlisted for the Djillong Short Story 2022 Competition and writer Abigayle Carmody described it as a powerful and unsettling story.
The 5,000-word piece of fiction was inspired by some of the true events written about in four small portraits in a life.
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