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Best Australian Yarn: I Shoot Them Now by David Harris

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Best Australian Yarn: I Shoot Them Now by David Harris
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I shoot them now.

When the day grows long and the heat stirs restless on the afternoon breeze, I work the rifle bolt and I listen to it snick, forward and back.

They appear close inside the rifle scope. A mob of kangaroos, languorous in the long grass and content but for the fleas that infest their hides. Wallowing in their ignorance of what is to come.

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