This is a story about a mysterious German immigrant to Australia, who almost certainly had Semitic ancestors. I have always felt a strong pull towards the Jewish persona, and I [...]
My Story I've always been afraid of things. Psychologists in this country use cognitive behaviour techniques (CBT) on people like me. This involves teaching you how to change thoughts, to [...]
This is a short story expressing contrasts between two cultures and the beauty and awe associated with the new one.
Jeannie is one of these inch worm types. One toe in, one toe back. The cold has always been alien. From birth, really. Even today, she shivers with the water [...]
A short story based on a life well-lived This piece is loosely based on my husband’s life, as a child spent in the Sydney suburb of Bondi, and as a [...]
A story of eternal love Dearest, I was telling our grandson, Andreas, just the other day, how he possesses the feeling function more strongly than I. He had just espied, [...]
Note: I first published this post on this blog in February, 2013. I have added little to the original for re-scheduling it in April 2019, apart from photos and some [...]
Emerging from the metro station, Hannah opened her eyes on a strange world into which she’d stumbled by chance. All was new and filled with a radiance she’d never known [...]
The Trouble With Flying, from the 2014 Margaret River Short Story Competition, edited by Richard Rossiter, Published by Margaret River Press, 2014 Review first published by Margaret River Press This [...]
He is waiting for me again this morning, out on the same post, watching me with one eye slanted as always, my jet black crow. He is out for what [...]
