Melbourne
Empire Rose skirt, $220 from Frisck, 721 Rathdowne Street North Carlton. Telephone 9348 1499 (also at 6 Union Street South Melbourne)
… And so it was, I had failed to have a son and the empire came to an end. In the years that followed my husband, the emperor, died in a tragic choky-choky nightshirt accident and I was left presiding over the only empire that was left – one of small pebble-like crabs in a plastic bucket and faded red of the sky at the close of another day…
