Kirsten McDougall’s Walking Day has taken out top honours in the open category of the Sunday Star-Times short story competition for 2020. lllustration: Rachel Trevelyan
Kirsten McDougall’s Walking Day has taken out top honours and a $5000 prize in the open category of the
Sunday Star-Times short story competition for 2020. The dogs started up before sunrise. A lone howl next a chorus of answers and fresh queries. Hungry lonely hungry loneleee Their cries entered Pip’s dreams and she woke full of warning. Dogs always knew when walking day came. No light round the rim of the shutters but the whole town would be awake with the dog racket. That was the cruel joke of it Father said. Walking day meant no labour but neither could you sleep.