This new short story collection will change how you see the world
Inga Simpson's new collection, Once We Were Wildlife, features 11 stories and one poem centered around the theme of nature. The stories explore diverse locations and creatures, showcasing Simpson's skill in short fiction. The collection delves into relationships and the natural world, highlighting the restorative and unpredictable aspects of nature.
- ▪Once We Were Wildlife includes 11 stories and one poem dedicated to the natural world.
- ▪The collection features stories set in various locations, including Tasmania, New Zealand, and India.
- ▪Simpson's writing often reflects her deep interest in environmental themes and relationships.
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Sydney Morning Herald publishes from Australia and files mainly under world. We currently carry 3,705 of its stories.
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| Original publisher | The Sydney Morning Herald |
| Canonical URL | https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/this-new-short-story-collection-will-change-how-you-see-the-world-20260515-p5zxa9.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed |
| Publication time | Wed, 20 May 2026 15:45:00 +1000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-20T05:55:00.268Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-20T05:55:00.268Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | lI5jcfRMf8hk · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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