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This 5000-word short story is set in rural Australia, where thirteen-year-old Tilly learns more about her grandparents' lives than she could have imagined before visiting them. Matilda thought holidaying on her grandparents' sheep property in outback Australia would be fun, but she is bored with no friends to do anything with. She explores Gran's old bottle and rubs the dirt off a bottle with red writing. A storm of wind and dust lands her outside an unusual corner store. Grans knew the store and shared her treasures with Tilly, who was intrigued by an ink well. She rubs and finds herself in a school yard in a uniform she didn't know. Safely home, she avoids touching any more bottles but finds a pair of rusty shears in her grandfather's shed. She lands in a shearing shed where the men are wearing clothes from a different era, and she is dressed like never before. Tilly realises there is more to her family history than she expected.

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Judy Wollin lives in Brisbane, Australia and loves to write adventure stories with characters that leap off the page. All her stories could be real-life events but are the product of a vivid imagination. She lived and worked in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, between 2006-2010, where she was the inaugural Head of School at the Fatima College of Health Sciences. She grew up in Melbourne where she rode her bike and headed to the bush for camping holidays each Summer with her family. When not looking for adventures, Judy spends her time imagining and writing stories. She loves to travel and recently visited Rwanda and the United Arab Emirates. She lives with her husband and has adult children and grandchildren. She loves things unusual and is always on the lookout for someone heading off on an adventure.

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