New Extract — Fitzger­ald House, Part One

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I’m cur­rently in the middle of tech­nical busi­ness so tedi­ous that my inter­net con­nec­tion actu­ally sui­cided instead of wait­ing for me to think of some­thing inter­est­ing to say about it.

So instead of risk­ing blog sui­cide by post­ing any­thing dull (Ran­dom Chance for­bid), I’ve pos­ted the first install­ment of a new, two-part extract from The Last Monk. The full extract is a bit longer than the red car­pet extract, con­tains some plot and intro­duces the hot­test young tea-cosy in mod­ern Aus­tralian lit­er­at­ure. Part Two will be pos­ted next Tuesday.

As always, feel free to hand it around, com­ment on it or print it for use as the raw mater­i­als of a com­plex ori­gami moose.

I hope I don’t need to say, pho­tos of ori­gami moose con­struc­ted from The Last Monk are encour­aged: mat@matlarkin.com.