The Australian Crawl: A Fiction

Here's a story about two lovers who inspired by a viewing of a Sydney staging of Genet's The Maids, starring Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert (true story) decide to swim the annual Rottnest Channel Swim (real event) when they learn that the event will feature a Genet play on the island named by Dutch to reflect it seemed like a rat's nest (true according to Wikipedia).