Lily Hayman is an emerging writer, director and performer who studied at the University of Wollongong. Her work Fledgling was presented in MERRIGONGX 2020. Joshua Lobb is an author and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong. Preparing for the Inevitable is based on Joshua’s short story of the same name. The story explores five moments of mortality, as people wait, poised, bracing for death.