Kate Rockwood

Cate Kennedy's debut collection is about two things: death and dying. In the first story, a young woman's girlfriend is in a coma following an auto accident and the woman must decide whether to take her lover off a respirator. In the second, an aging athlete puts the 15-year-old family dog down, almost as an afterthought. The third story takes place entirely in an airport, where a woman dying of some unnamed disease is trying to calmly smuggle three kilos of cocaine back into the country for one last drug-tinged hoorah. And in the fourth - well, you get the idea...

Originally published Winter 2007, VenusZine