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Yesterday I accompanied a friend to a medical specialist who has been urging invasive and ill-tested procedures, saying, "Don't you want to go with the science?" We were talking about the weather, to cover an ...read more
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Being shoved up against the train windows by a much older man whose friends looked on and hooted. Waking up as the blankets were stripped off my upper bunk and the passport controller's flashlight swept ...read more
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If one Australian festival was to take over the world as the British/American Hallowe'en has this year, which one should it be? Cockroach races? Todd River Regatta, which is run on legs in a dry ...read more
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I've been using the exact same folded square of toilet paper to blot my fountain pen every time I refill it for about three or four months now. It resembles the nosebleed of some terribly ...read more
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I was so tired. I rang my mum. We rarely speak. I said, it's me, I just wondered, are you out tonight? Only I'm feeling so worn through, and I want to have a bath, ...read more
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We went to a party and everyone got drunk. This came treading the heels of some very sad news that had dissolved me and my partner into tears, sad family news, we sat on the ...read more
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We went out to a swanky bar without getting out of our gardening clothes. It was quiet til a busload of people staggered in in some serious clobber. One of them came up to us ...read more
Beautiful African woman, standing with her back to the street in a luscious canary-yellow dress. She is facing the vast windows of a display of swank cars, why? The windows rise away into the night ...read more
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Tony Abbott threatening to "shirt-front" Putin? And that meme that has the two of them side by side, Tony shirtless in his budgie smugglers and Putin shirtless on his horse? It arose the same day ...read more