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Wattle and Iron

Name: Wattle and Iron
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Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Arlo Quinn

by Arlo Quinn · published via Smithbook

In a dry bush town, the old iron has started to walk at night. A farrier and her daughter follow it.

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"The heat, the flies, the corrugated iron ticking at night. So true to the country."

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Nobody in Coolabah Creek can remember the last rain. The creek is sand, the wattle is brown, and at night, the iron things of the town have started to move: horseshoes, fence wire, the rusted windmill on the Dunlop place. Ada Carmody is the last farrier in the district, and she knows iron. When her twelve-year-old daughter follows the walking iron out into the scrub, Ada goes after her. A fantasy of heat, dust and the old promises a dry country keeps.

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The first thing Ada Carmody noticed was the horseshoes. She kept a nail keg of old ones by the forge, rusty and bent, for melting down. On Tuesday morning the keg was empty and a line of horseshoes lay in the red dust of the main street, one after another, heading west toward the dry creek like something had walked there on them. By Friday it was fence wire. Whole lengths of it had pulled free of the posts on the Barnett place and coiled away into the scrub in the night. People in Coolabah Creek

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Title: Wattle and Iron
Author: Arlo Quinn
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Language: English
Category: Fantasy & Science Fiction · Fiction & Literature
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★★★★★ · lui•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test9/30/2026

The bush as I know it

The heat, the flies, the corrugated iron ticking at night. So true to the country.

★★★★☆ · mar•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test9/30/2026

Strange and good

A fantasy unlike anything I have read. Ada and Nell are wonderful together.

About the author

Arlo Quinn

I fix bikes at a little shop in West End, a block back from the river, and I write before work, from about five until the humidity wins. Most of my stories start with something broken and a person stubborn enough to fix it: a relay station on a dead moon, a glass furnace in a flooded city, a bush town where the iron has started to walk. I grew up in Ipswich, read every paperback in the Redbank Plains library by the time I was fourteen, and still think the best crews are the ones that argue about lunch. I share a Queenslander with two housemates, a lot of tools and a possum who lives in the roof and does not pay rent.

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