The Black Flower

✍ Scribed by Holden Sheppard

• Book ID: 111975143
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 17 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781370683925

✦ Synopsis

When Nick and Ashlea first meet, they’re just two drunk seventeen year olds at a house party. He’s a binge-drinking redneck; she’s a wild party girl. And every weekend in a country town like Geraldton is an alcoholic’s dream. It’s a perfect match – until it isn’t. When tragedy strikes, Ashlea grows up fast. But Nick can’t pull himself away from the booze – or the ghosts of his childhood that echo through every part of his life. With Nick's addiction threatening to destroy their young love, Ashlea delivers an ultimatum – but it has deadly consequences. THE BLACK FLOWER is a raw, emotional portrait of two teenagers trapped in the chaos of anger, vulnerability and trauma. This story was originally published in the Melbourne-based anthology Page Seventeen.This paperback edition also contains the bonus short story A MAN, as well as the originally-published 2015 text of THE BLACK FLOWER.