Learning to Live Without the Tube was published in The Age and Black Velvet Night won an award in the 1979 Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Moomba competition.

Many thanks to all the people who helped with the typing and prep­aration of these stories, especially Alison who made the work a pleasure.

THE AUTHOR

Bruce Pascoe has lived in the area for seven years and has worked as a secondary school teacher and abalone sheller.