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Closing The Commie is a short story by Patrick Higgins, set in the early hours of a Friday night at The Commercial Hotel in Clermont, Queensland — a pub at the end of the road, in a town with not much to offer.
When publican Willy locks up at closing time, something is waiting in the dark. What follows is a slow-burn story about inertia, fear, and what it takes to finally move — told through one very long night in outback Queensland.
Atmospheric, darkly comic, and quietly unsettling, Closing The Commie is the first short fiction release from The Journal Media.
Closing The Commie is a short story by Patrick Higgins, set in the early hours of a Friday night at The Commercial Hotel in Clermont, Queensland — a pub at the end of the road, in a town with not much to offer.
When publican Willy locks up at closing time, something is waiting in the dark. What follows is a slow-burn story about inertia, fear, and what it takes to finally move — told through one very long night in outback Queensland.
Atmospheric, darkly comic, and quietly unsettling, Closing The Commie is the first short fiction release from The Journal Media.