´When it came to football, Billy was different. Black hands grab theball. Black feet kick the ball. Black hopes rise up with the ball tothe sickly white sky. No one can stop him now. He forgets about theriver, and the people of his blood . . .´ But who can forget their own past? Billy finds that the ties which hold him to the people of hisblood are strong indeed . . . The stories in this volume of WorldStories are by Australian writers Mena Abdullah & Ray Mathew, JudithWright, Archie Weller, Dal Stivens, David Malouf, Marion Halligan.