AfterDarkness

Christine Piper’s short fiction has been published in Seizure, SWAMP and Things That Are Found in Trees and Other Stories. She was the 2013 Alice Hayes writing fellow at Ragdale in the United States. She has studied creative writing at Macquarie University, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Technology, Sydney, where she wrote a version of this novel as part of her doctoral degree. She has also worked as a magazine editor and writer for more than a decade. Born in South Korea in 1979 to an Australian father and a Japanese mother, she moved to Australia when she was one. She has previously taught English and studied Japanese in Japan, and currently lives in New York with her husband. After Darkness is her first novel. www.christinepiper.com After Darkness CHRISTINE PIPER This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organisations, places and incidents either are a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. First published in 2014 Copyright © Christine Piper 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or......