‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’, a short story by S.J. Finn

The ABR Podcast
13/02/2025 33 min Episodio 222
‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’, a short story by S.J. Finn

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This week on The ABR Podcast we feature a short story from the ABR archive. The story, ‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’ by S.J. Finn, was commended in the 2018 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story prize. (The 2025 Jolley Short Story Prize is now open!) S.J. Finn is an Australian writer based in Melbourne. Listen to ‘Joan Mercer’s Fertile Head’, first published in ABR in 2018 and now part of ABR’s extensive digital archive going back to 1978.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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