GHOST BIRD

"Remember granddaughter, the world is a lot bigger than anyone knows. There are things that science may never explain. Maybe some things that shouldn't be explained."

Stacey and Laney are twins and mirror images of each other but as different as the sun and the moon. Stacey wants to go places, do things and be someone different while Laney just wants to skip school and sneak out of the house to meet her boyfriend Troy. But when Laney doesn't come home one night, the town assumes she's just doing her normal run-off but Stacey's gut tells her different.

Stacey knows her twin isn't dead - she just doesn't know where she is; she can see her in her dreams but doesn't know if she is real or imagined. Holding onto the words her Nan taught her is one thing but listening to those around you is another - who will Stacey trust? As the town starts to believe that Laney is missing for good, can she find her twin in time?

Lisa Fuller is a Wuilli Wuilli woman from Eidsvold, Queensland, and is also descended from Gooreng Gooreng and Wakka Wakka. She is currently doing her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Canberra. She won the 2018 Varuna Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship, was a joint winner of the 2018 Copyright Agency Fellowships for First Nations Writers, and placed second in the 2018 Feminartsy Memoir Prize. An editor and former publisher, Lisa has a Masters of Creative Writing, attended the 2014 Residential Editorial Program, and is the joint winner of the 2014 Anne Edgeworth Fellowship. She has previously published poetry and short fiction in Etchings Indigenous: Treaty (2011), By Close of Business (2013), VerityLa's Ochre Lines (2017) and Too Deadly: our voice, our way, our business (2017). She has two blog posts on the ACT Writers Centre and Feminartsy. An editor and publisher by trade, she is passionate about culturally appropriate writing and publishing. Lisa is a member of Us Mob Writing, First Nations Australia Writers Network, and the Canberra Society of Editors.