'Bloody Mongrel',
Read my story 'Bloody Mongrel' in Vegemite Whiskers, an e-book anthology of the best of the short stories from Australia's entry in the Global Short Stories Competition.
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'Espresso',
Read my story 'Espresso' along with 24 other short tales from international authors in Mosaic, published now by Bridge House.
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'Blue Willow',
My story 'Blue Willow' has been highly commended in the Stringy Bark Flash Fiction Award 2011 and published in the anthology, Between Heaven and Hell, which features 38 stories by the authors who placed in the competition.
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'The Foot Snake Story',My story, 'The Footsnake Story' has been highly commended in the Stringy Bark Short Story Award 2010 and published in the anthology, The Umbrella's Shade.
The Umbrella's Shade features 27 stories relating to Australia or Australian characters by the authors who placed in the competition.
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'Not Dead Yet',
Read my winning entry, 'Not Dead Yet' in the 2008 Boroondara Literary Awards in 'Award Winning Australian Writing 2009' along with the short stories and bush poetry of many other Australian authors.
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All the stories featured on this web site are subject to copyright. They must not be copied or used without the express permission of the author. |
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'A Change of Standards'
My twitter fiction was shortlisted in The Fiction Shelf inaugural writing competition.
He inspected the shirts she ironed for him, expected nothing short of perfection. After she left him. he wore them crumpled. |
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'A Sparrow's Fate'
is First Prize Winner
in A Very Short Story September 2011 competition
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'The Garramoda'
has been published by Ether Books and can be download on the free Ether app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
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The Garramoda: An old man fights to save his family from evil. Will they believe his warnings in time or be lost to the curse.
Other titles available on the Ether App. are 'Espresso', 'The Peacock's Lair' and 'Cry of the Plover'. |
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'Mason Brick and Tile'
Second Prize Winner
in the FAW (Vic) Mornington Peninsula Prize 2011 | |
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'Get Teddy'
First Prize Winner
in the Eastwood/Hills FAW Literary Compeition 2011 |
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Cry of the Plover:
"How could you let this happen?" Your father is yelling at me. I hold the 'phone away from my ear, he is even angrier than usual. I'm glad we left the police station before he got there. ...............I hold my hand in front of your mouth; linger there, waiting for the soft flutter of your fragile breath. I need reassurance, proof that you are still here.
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After The Wake
Len died on Thursday and I buried him on Tuesday. In the days between, I meant to cry but my tears, packed dense with sorrow were stuck in their ducts. My time was eaten along with my biscuits, by visitors and relatives who came to sip tea from my best china and tut tut their sorries in hushed voices.
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The Coal Miner's Candle
"You ran away! How old were you?"
"I was going on fourteen. I left a note on the kitchen table and took off in the middle of the night. I didn't have any money, didn't know what I was going to do, but along the road I ran into a bloke who said they were hiring for the State Coal Mine in Wonthaggi...."
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The Garramoda:
Hhhrr, hhhrr, hhhrr. Caralee puffed her breath on the mirror; watched the vapour form misty on the glass, and then fade slowly, delicately. I should have thrown that mirror away years ago, accepted that it would never give back what it had taken and been done with it.
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Laced with Black Thread:
It's not my fault I was born bad; I was on the losing end of a genetic lottery, my soul laced and tied with the black thread of ancestral misdeeds and malevolence.
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Danhooden:
Danhooden was a bulb baby, which was an accurate description even though he was grown to adulthood, since standing on his tip-toes, he was no taller than Merryl Conch's big toe was high.
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