Title: Railway China

Author: John Newton

In: Sport 39: 2011

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, 2013, Wellington

Part of: Sport

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Sport 39: 2011

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‘How are you feeling?’ the doctor inquired.

In truth I felt the near edge of something like joy.

‘Youth …’

‘Exactly. That nervous pony! The whole town’s lover, no one’s bride. You see these children, the way they shimmer in their adolescent breeding colours, they have fallen for her too, though they can’t yet know it. And you share this, yes? So don’t be jealous, you are almost family! Do you have children?

‘…’

‘I thought not. So let these be them!’

A tiny Lolita spun her plum-coloured parasol: kohl and black lipstick swallowed the light.

The storm broke open with a tearing sound and autumn soaked me to the skin.