The Other Girl

Leura hadn’t expected the bush to be quite so tough. Now she was stranded alone in the middle of nowhere, in a broken-down car…

“The radiator grille was solid with grasshopper bodies and Leura was still clearing it when she suddenly found she was not alone. Away to the right, some willy-willies came dancing and whirling: thin spirals of dust moving in slim columns across the plain. Then on the far side of the wire fence came the kangaroos. Two of them, big euros.

Next an iguana — he ran up a post and clung there, immobile… Suddenly the western sky palled up in a brown blanket — wihin seconds the world was blacked out; the dust storm threatened to cover even the car…”