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Chapter One: Early Fragments (Glenda Guest)

Gordon and Dorothy She was sixteen and at a dance when she saw him. It was, she said, like the song, across a crowded room. And I did know immediately …

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biographyGlenda Guest

Disturbing Things (Kuzhali Manickavel)

K- I can’t even talk right now. It was So. Disturbing. I can’t even tell you how disturbing it was. I am so disturbed by how disturbing it was. S- …

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Kuzhali Manickavel

The Interminable Suffering Of Mysterious Mr Wu (Rjurik Davidson)

Mr Wu is crying upstairs again. I can hear him as I lie on my bed, the broken sobs clear, distinct. It is as if he were here in the …

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Rjurik Davidson

Black Lazarus (Maxine Beneba Clarke)

It was close to six by the time Sonny finished up at the Basement. The twenty wedged deep down in his pocket, he made his way to his leafleting post …

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Black LazarusMaxine Beneba Clarke

A Very Big Bean (Eric Dando)

The caravan heats up like a little oven in the midday sun.  Jill is stretched out on the bed sweating.  She is too skinny.  Her little heart skips a beat …

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Eric DandoMiles Allinson

War on Cheese (Warwick Sprawson)

The Federal Government will launch a pre-emptive strike against the highly addictive drug, cheese, to suppress its use in Australia, with the launch of its 19 million-dollar campaign ‘Freeze Cheese: …

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Warwick Sprawson

Drunkest Man in the Room (Luke May)

She hunches over and tugs the skivvy from her stomach, but the fabric is wet and sticks with a thwack. Stepping inside she remembers how it always rains on her …

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Luke May

The Kite (Pierz Newton-John)

There is a church that stands on High Street that will always signify disaster. When Adam has grown up, he will dream of it again in times of sorrow or …

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Pierz Newton-John

My Sheets Were Freshly Cleaned and Smelled of Lilac (Bel Woods)

She smiled that day, when I told her I was Yugoslavian, her bright lips an open suitcase – one of those soft slouchy ones with a saggy zipper – not …

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Bel Woods

Bear Vs. Plane! (Kirk Marshall)

  We were sitting with calculable comfort at about 3,000 feet, our feeble human engineering warping from the relaxed atmosphere of our immediate surrounds, the cabin lights dimmed in a …

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Australian short storiesContemporary Australian literatureKirk Marshall
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