Jane Turner Goldsmith

Jane Turner Goldsmith's first novel Poinciana was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Prize in 2007. She has also published a junior novel and edited a non-fiction anthology of adoption stories. Jane has had short stories, poetry, flash pieces and articles published, both print and online. She works as a psychologist in workplace counselling and is embarking on a new novel-in-stories about essential workers for her creative writing PhD at the University of Adelaide.

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Published in Overland Issue 241 Summer 2020 ·

Smoke road

Jane Turner Goldsmith

There’s a huddle of garden gnomes on the gravel strip outside the roadhouse. A huge hand-painted red sign advertises: Sale: Nomes. 2 for 1. Sandy hauls the heavy steering to the right and shudders the Holden off the red dirt highway. Maybe they’ll have urns. It’s midday but she doesn’t need fuel or food, not yet, so she pulls up just outside the window of the pre-fab hotbox that houses the sole cashier, presumably the procurer of the nomes, and yanks the handbrake up.