Diane Stubbings - The Parricide

A beat.

He returns to the fire, salvages a page or two of the notebook, takes them back with him to the desk.

As ANNA continues to work to bring order to the flat,

FEDYA bends his head, begins to write.

CURRENCY THEATER SERIES

First published in 2014

by Currency Press Pty Ltd,

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in association with La Mama Theatre

First digital edition published in 2014 by Currency Press Pty Ltd

The Paracide copyright © Diane Stubbings, 2014

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Printed ISBN: 9781925005097

ePub ISBN: 9781925004762

mobi ISBN: 9781925004779

Cover image: Vasily Perov, Portrait of F.M. Dostoyevsky . Source: Google Art Project

Cover design by Peter Mumford.