The Great Wen
By Kaycee Kraaz
Creative Writing
Redbank Plains State High School - Year 11
A short story of vignettes about a female journalist in 1941 set with the task of reporting on the life of a London housewife, amidst the ongoing war.
Helena is a 55-year-old British woman, she鈥檚 a middle-class newspaper writer in the 1940s. The perfectionist in her desires to create an article full of everything her boss desires. But going out to document and report the horrors of war is taking a massive toll on Helena鈥檚 mental state. From the train ride to London, to her stay in the inn, how on earth is she supposed to inspire the public of a housewife鈥檚 dream.
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