My name is Toby and I’ll tell you about a time when I escaped modern day life.
The sound of Home and Away fades away as I walk to the end of the block. Finally, I have a chance to escape modern life. Why don’t they understand
the need to escape the world of television?
Everybody thinks that I am strange, and for some reason they choose to treat me as if I was an alien, or a refugee from Cambodia who still doesn’t understand the ins and outs of Australian life.
I clutch my damaged leather Datner coat tighter around my tired body. In the steely grey waters of the ocean