Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
A liability
THE JOURNALIST IS calling again. I don’t know how he got my number. I suppose it couldn’t have been...
Venerable
WHEN WE PULL up outside the block, she is waiting in her best grey skirt and pearl-pink blouse with...
The real deal
DURING THE FIRST month of my residency I knew hardly anybody in Hanoi. Although I told my friends and...
This is my life
QUINN’S ON THE porch. I can see him over Mum’s shoulder through the smudged vertical strip of glass next...
Piggy
‘Yes. Yes. I am ready,’ I said. Unsure of what I was getting ready for. Something good. Something inexplicable....
The landlord’s son
THE LANDLORD’S SON arrived unannounced, just before dinner. Mia saw him from the window as he crossed the paddock...
Sanford Meisner
TO HELP THE Year 10s reconnect with their craft after the September school holidays, Hale has them do Viewpoints....
Hat trick
BEFORE THE CALL, I was a girl in a new city, with a new job and a roommate I chose...
The jacket
DOUG CLOUDY WAS desperate for it. He hadn’t been laid since the backpackers came through town all those years...
One telekinetic Wednesday
THE JOB, IT turned out, was mostly folders. Tricoloured, triaged, in need of fresh sticky flags. Each weekday at...
The Mountain
STANDING HIGH IN the landscape, the Mountain has always been there. Listening, watching, teaching, arranging the flow of the...
The body
The LORD prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah,and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three...
