"People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen." Date Completed: June 18 2017 Page Length: 635 Goodreads If you've been following my Letters From the Road you'll know I've been reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods …
Letters from the Road: Townsville
Dear Dreamers, I don't know what to tell you. A lot has happened since last I wrote. We've stayed at Monto, Lindley's Crossing, Marlborough, Boulder Creek, Bowen River Hotel, and now a lovely property just north of Townsville. We've seen things too; pop up communities of hippie revelers, masses of brahman cattle mustered over Bowen …
Letters from the Road: Bundaberg
Dear Dreamers, Mat, Snoop and I spent the last week in Bundaberg. A town known for many things, rum, sugar, ginger beer and turtles. Got to say, it’s been friggin’ great. We had some rainy days but were glad not to be camping and it was never cold. Avoiding winter by continually driving north is …
On Reading: ‘The Thing in the Forest’ by A.S. Byatt
Packing up my parents house has been a long, grueling process. Something that has made it even longer but far less grueling is the discover and rediscover of books. You may have seen my Picture Book post on Twitter recently. https://twitter.com/SarahRHFallon/status/850583823632842752 Another book I discovered during my hours of bookshelf emptying and box packing …
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Helping Hand – Flash Fiction
There was a little girl who lived on the streets. She made what money she could from selling wild flowers, collecting them at dawn by the river bank far out of town. She made enough money to feed herself and, in time, to purchase a woven wicker basket allowing her to collect and …
Top 4 Writing Books for Non-Beginners
It’s an interesting feeling, realising you’ve progressed past the ‘how to’ writing books on your shelf. Those books that explain what point of view is and the difference between plotting and pantsing. Deciding to write a novel recently, I pulled down a few of these long-forgotten tomes and found they couldn’t help me. Not anymore. …
Beauty and the Beast – Film Review
Yesterday I saw Disney's latest adaptation of their original adaptation of a story as old as time, Beauty and the Beast. Along with The Little Mermaid this was my favourite Disney film. It was a film (and a princess) for my generation. Belle was a unique individual with a mind of her own. She was stubborn and rebellious …
Flash Fiction: Fairy Lights and Black Holes
The cops glide by, at a leisurely pace, on their Segway’s. Slow and steady, helmeted, back straight, as straight as their faces. Three kids, Lebanese, Caucasian, Islander. Backs against the wall. Two of the three sit obediently heads bowed. The other… not so much. “Sit down now,” says one of the coppers. They’ve parked their …
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The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography – Edmund Gordon
Date Completed: Early January 2017 Page Length: 544 Goodreads Rather than begin this review with a quote, I will simply say, read the whole damn thing. My mum gave me Edmund Gordon's biography of Angela Carter fro Christmas last year and read it almost non stop until completing it in early January. I was slowed down considerably …
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Flash Fiction: Sad Women
Every Thursday afternoon there is a group, who meets, of sad women. They have hollow cheeks, eyebrows that rise at the centre, large wide eyes and the corners of their mouths point to their toes. They meet in the large room at the community centre. They don’t gossip and make tea like the knitters or …
