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David Sornig

David Sornig is a Melbourne-born writer. His non-fiction and histories have appeared in MeanjinThe Saturday PaperGriffith ReviewGuardian and elsewhere. His most recent book is Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp, a psychogeographic excursion into the afterlife of Melbourne’s lost wetlands.

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Os Sacrum

HEAT Series 3 Number 20
2025

I’d pitched almost horizontally onto a cold concrete edge four steps below, cracking the full plummeting weight of my being square onto my lower back. When I picked myself up and limped into the university clinic, the doctor marvelled at the fact that no matter how violent the accident, the bone upon which I had fallen – the os sacrum – was the one bone that refused to break.

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