Paul Luckhart

Paul Luckhart lives in Tasmania, where he is studying to be a teacher. He spends his weekends in search of the thylacine, an animal long believed to be extinct.

July 8, 1927

The wildfires burning in the city’s outlying regions were said to be the worst anyone could remember. A cloud carried through the streets, softening colours and dulling the edges. The features of structures and people were made indistinct, and all that was visible was what was near. I thought of glimpsing something I was not prepared for, like a monster jumping from outside the frame in a horror film,