The glow in the sky. Orange streetlights. Outlying suburbs. It was beautiful. The highway turned onto the six-lane arterial. We came in through Oxley and Annerley, flowing with the traffic. Then the city high rises were in view, alight, multicoloured. Brisbane. It was impossibly beautiful.

Andrew McGahan, 1988, St Leonard’s, NSW, Allen and Unwin,1995, p 308

Place of origin: 
St Leonard’s, NSW
Page number: 
308