The Mother Must Die
The fashion industry is killing the planet but I really need that new designer handbag…Her daughter is divorcing and she’s going to die because of it… The mother must be medicated… I just want to be in Cyprus, why would I want to be in Australia…She’s never had an orgasm and still lives with her parents...Anything my boys want they get…He’s got a whole bank of chicks on his phone… Ever since I came to this country I been in bed…If her children can get her the drug for the MND, until then she will dream of her village in Greece…Conquests are about scoring the chicks, but he's never going to turn out like his nonno...They never talked about what her uncle did again…The money made him go mad…My mummy is sad, she keeps talking about ‘court and custody’, but I’m going to take the potion and make everything better…
Bestselling poet Koraly Dimitriadis’s debut short-story collection features broken people trying to make their way back to hope.
Koraly Dimitriadis is a bestselling Cypriot-Australian writer and performer. She is the author of the poetry books Love and F—k Poems (also in Greek), Just Give Me The Pills and She’s Not Normal. Her short stories, poems, essays and opinion pieces have been widely published here and overseas including in The Age, Women’s Agenda, The Saturday Paper, Neos Kosmos The Independent (UK), Shondaland, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and The Washington Post.
