Young Writers

A bird in a burnt forest
Jemima Bate

“Charcoal: All that remained of his bushland property stained his work boots black. His home, his land, engulfed by fire and left charred with soot. This land, once his childhood sanctuary, succumbed to nature and her wishes.
It was a week after fires raged across the Victorian highlands in what would become known as ‘Black Saturday’ …”