What happens when a boy knows something to be true.

Chris Fleming is an award-winning Australian writer and translator and was recently shortlisted for the CalibreEssay Prize, the Island Nonfiction Prize, and the Peter Cowan Short Story Prize. His writing spans theory, journalism, fiction, and translation, and has appeared in venues including HEAT, The Guardian, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.He is the author or editor of ten books, including René Girard:Violence and Mimesis, Modern Conspiracy: The Importance of Being Paranoid, and the acclaimed memoir On Drugs (Giramondo 2019), which Phillip Lopate said, “rightly takes its place beside William Burroughs and De Quincey.” He is Associate Professor in Humanities at Western Sydney University and a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre.

Music courtesy of Sean Peter