Ursula Robinson-Shaw is a writer from Aotearoa, living in Naarm/Melbourne. Her recent work can be found in Sydney Review of Books, Paraphase and Going Down Swinging. She is co-director of sick leave.
MOTHS! IN EVERYTHING. SHE TURNED out her pockets on the way to work, full, as sheโd suspected, of grit, their horrible sandy eggs, strange all-coloured lint from the house entire. Romy loved her work; it provided a break from the moths, or more precisely it left little space for the mind, the moths being, more than a pestilence, a kind of metaphysical rash she could not correct. She had recently taken a job as a policy analyst at the Lou McEnright Foundation, a non-partisan, for-profit think tank, which worked towards a sustainable future by empowering young people andโฆ