Post-Traumatic Stress: A Short Story

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In the months after the collapse, she had insisted they move away but Antonello refused. In hindsight, she knew he was suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress but none of the survivors went to counselling. The doctors treated their physical injuries and gave them sleeping tablets. They saw the Bridge daily, there was no avoiding it. If they went to the shops, if they walked to Alex’s house, if they picked up their granddaughters from school, if they took the train into the city...like a black birthmark on a child’s face, no matter where you looked there is no avoiding it. Antonello never drove across it, not even to visit Nicki in Port Melbourne, on the other side of the Bridge. The Bridge was having a bad year. In the summer, a father stopped

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