Locked
August 6, 2018 AD
The Room on the Other Side
A quarter-acre of uneven ground near the centre of the Bixbus settlement is marked with stakes and cord. Over the six days that follow, a compact front-end loader levels it, a twenty-foot shipping container is lowered onto its eastern end, and a drama teacher from Hobart walks inside it on day three and marks in chalk where the windows should go. By the evening of day six, the container has a door that closes, two windows that admit afternoon light through perspex, four walls painted white twice, and a desk positioned to face the light. The children have not arrived yet.
