It was in the summer of 1995 and my father was working in a top-secret IBM water lab off the coast of Wollongong. Thanks to classic films like Deep Blue …
Blessing (brand-spanking new radar poetry from the completely marvelous Nathan Curnow)
It came rushing toward me across the paddocks all I had to do was stand—the moment roaring silent and ancient, collapsing into bloom. How it called to no one, especially …
Homesick (Cassandra Atherton)
Every second Saturday you go home. You still call it home. Like a homing pigeon. Even though your home is now with me. Your instinct is always to head …
WORKING AN INVISIBLE THREAD: an interview with Irma Gold
One of the great things about online journals is being able to keep in touch with the literary world’s movers and shakers, the people who work their arses off to …
Flicker (Kevin Brophy)
The last shadow left quietly, almost without personality, flickering as it left like a movement from a horse at the far end of a paddock caught in the corner of …
Preaching to the Converted: Garry Disher's Play Abandoned
Review by Robert Goodman Garry Disher has written across a range of genres but is best known for his award-winning crime series – the Wyatt books about a roguish thief, …
Mother and Son (Stuart Barnes)
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings —Shakespeare _ Mid-December 1994. Recently I’d turned 17; my parents had …
The old, old story (John Clanchy)
Spring in Paris. It was the spell cast by the words themselves which had drawn her there. Which had led her to squander on airfares and a cheap hotel the …
THE LONG RIDE: an interview with Denise Young
Ever had an idea for a story that became a highly prized novel that became a highly acclaimed movie with an A-list star? Think it never happens? Well, it does …
A Story Somewhere in the Distance: Anthony J. Langford's Bottomless River
Review by Tristan Foster It’s summertime in an Australian east-coast country town, school is done for the year and, to three bored friends, a night of riverside drinking sounds like …