Author: Melissa Fagan

Melissa Fagan is the joint runner-up of the Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize. She has been (among other things) a nanny, tour leader, swimming instructor, English teacher and editorial assistant. She is currently a Brisbane-based writer and editor, and MPhil candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland.

209 Summer 2012: Short Story Prize

The day the world stayed the same

Joint runner-up: Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize

Melissa Fagan

Tuesday, September 11, 2001 dawns humid and somewhat cloudy in southern Vietnam. Millions of men and women ready themselves for work. Some make their way by scooter to downtown Saigon, or District 1, in the centre of Ho Chi Minh City. Some go to the market.

Read 'The day the world stayed the same'