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I read ‘A Strong Urge To Fly’ from Alan Baxter’s collection Crow Shine last night on the train home from Sydney. I’d started in late in the commute and finished just before getting to my stop. A good thing too, because I was so engrossed I would have had to sit on the platform in …
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I watched Annihilation the other night. Horror/thrillers where the cast gets picked off one by one until only the protagonist is left standing is not usually my jam but I really wanted to like this one. I wanted to like it because the core cast was entirely female in a genre and narrative structure that …
Two weeks ago Volume 18 of FIVE:2:ONE hit the stands with my name on the contents page. It was a long slog from acceptance (mid last year) to publication but it was worth it to see me name in an honest to goodness Amazon listing. The story, ‘Showing Hearts’ is about a pair of ex-lovers. …
When I go to the beach I pack a towel, sunscreen, a water bottle and a book. While I love to lounge in the sun and go for a swim, the greatest pleasure I find in going to the beach is reading. The two things are intrinsically linked in my mind. I grew up an …
So you may remember a few days ago I received some exciting and distracting news? Well I can now share that news with you.... My short story 'Roots' won the 2017 Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing, fiction category! The New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing is a national award for unpublished short-form crime writing …
So now I'm not writing or blogging! Shame on me! The truth about yesterday is... I forgot. I went out for breakfast, then to work, got home late and just plum forgot. I've been avidly reading Reflections on the Magic of Writing by Diana Wynne Jones for the last few days as well and it is …
“Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.” Date Completed: 256 Page Length: September 12 2017 Goodreads I house sat for my aunt and uncle the other weekend. …
Someone knocked on my front door. From my bedroom window I could see a dash of blonde hair but nothing else. Another knock. And again. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. When I opened the door she pushed inside, grabbed me by the throat and shoved me against the exposed brick wall. She loomed over me. …
“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.' Date Completed: August 13 2017 Page Length: 320 Goodreads The Unbearable Lightness of Being was, for me, one of those books that you’ve heard of but don’t know anything about. Someone had probably mentioned it at uni, and I know a …
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Dear Dreamers, It's good to have family. Especially family that happen to live along the south east coast of QLD and can put you up on your way to NSW. My cousin in Brisbane and my aunt and uncle on the Gold Coast did (and continue to do) that. We've been wined and dined and …
