S & J

by Ellen van Neerven-Currie

This story’s first-person narrator, Esther (“S”), is traveling on school holidays with her friend Jaye (“J”) when they pick up a young German hitchhiker, Sigrid. Sigrid is entranced by the romance of meeting an Aboriginal woman and when the girls all arrive at Jaye’s grandmother’s beachside house, the romance becomes physical. Esther is hurt as much by the perceived betrayal by Jaye as she is by the fact that Sigrid fails to recognize that Esther herself is of Aboriginal descent: her skin is fair in comparison to Jaye’s.

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7 pages, ebook