Now that he is close to her, a faint smell of staleness, unwashedness, reaches him.

Something happened to Quinn’s heart when he imagined Nicole, orphaned and sent off to live with a relative who had the un-auntly name of Freddie.

He needs to put on his big boy pants and make the tough choice.

Anyway, kangaroos evolved here, as did platypodes and a whole bunch of other birds and animals and fish and plants. Murray Cod. Emu. Macadamias.