Nick Roger Clarke is a writer, videographer, and marathon runner from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. His first collection, Positive Reinforcements for Negative People, appeared in 2018. He has also been published in The Age,Soft Quarterly, and Runners Tribe.
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Written in the early stages of the pandemic, this fairytale-like story finds a man looking to shape his environment to reflect the fragility of life—one screw at a t…