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Dave’s Drawing

By

Dave

Dave writes from a prison in QLD.

A pen line illustration of a koi fish, with a spiral shaped backdrop.
Dave draws from a prison in QLD

Long time reader first time writer.

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I’m sending a drawing I have done – I’ve only been drawing for about eight months now and I’m happy with my progress, as before I could only draw stick figures.

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About Time, keep up doing a great job, you’re helping get our stories out to others, helps us all. To my fellow crims/inmate men, women and juniors, stay strong and keep fighting the good fight and also always remember that our friends, family and others are out their and they love us.

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I hope your day to walk out that front gate comes soon!

This
piece
was originally printed in the
October 2026
edition of About Time.
By Marley

Time, for me, was at first just “the clock on the wall” at high school. When is lunch? When will this test finish? And when is home time?

ISSUE NO. 27
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By Jaivien

Have you ever found yourself at the bottom of a well?

ISSUE NO. 27
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By Rain

The decay of an atom indicates that time itself has passed, it is the origin of our concept of time.

ISSUE NO. 27
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By Shea

Our time machine doesn’t take the form of a Tardis, or DeLorean, yet it does represent an equally large figure in pop culture and science fiction (at least those forced into hard labour on a mining planet colony usually got a spectacular view of the galaxy around them).

ISSUE NO. 27
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3 MIN READ
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