"The Water Runner"

Title"The Water Runner"
Year for Search2021
AuthorsBacon, Eugen [Matoyo]
Secondary TitleDanged Black Thing
Pagination22-39
Date Published2021
PublisherTransit Lounge
Place PublishedMelbourne, Vic, Australia
ISBN Number978-1-925760-84-2
KeywordsAfrican author, Australian author, English author, Female author
Annotation

The story is set in a drought ravaged African country in which the rich lived in a city in a city with plenty of water and outside the city the protagonist, a water runner, harvests water from the bodies of the newly deceased.

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Author Note

The Black female author was born in Tanzania, lived for some years in England, and now lives in Australia. She trained as a computer scientist (MA and MSc) in England and also holds a PhD in writing from Swinburne University of Technology.

Full Text

2021 Bacon, Eugen [Matoyo]. “The Water Runner.” In her Danged Black Thing (Melbourne, Vic, Australia: Transit Lounge, 2021), 22-39. First publication. PSt

The story is set in a drought ravaged African country in which the rich lived in a city in a city with plenty of water and outside the city the protagonist, a water runner, harvests water from the bodies of the newly deceased. The Black female author was born in Tanzania, lived for some years in England, and now lives in Australia. She trained as a computer scientist (MA and MSc) in England and also holds a PhD in writing from Swinburne University of Technology.