Fiction Archives

A STRANGER RODE into town only it wasn’t a stranger, it was Kerry, come to say goodbye to Pop...

HE TOLD ME he’d meet me at the corner of the station where Citibank had a small office. ‘I’ll be...

LSS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, TERMINAL 1 WE ARE SHORT and invisible men. Oriental red. Iron-rail thin. Short for men in...

By Kevin Eze

CAROLINA THEY USED HIS face on the Facebook profile. When he sent me a friend request, I accepted because he...

By Sharon Millar

‘THE QUEEN’S GONNA pass over Charlie and hand over the Crown to William,’ Chickee said to Buzz. ‘Poor Old...

1 THE FIRST THING that happened was a woman came into the ranger station while I was on the phone...

By Chris Somerville

SUE SHIT, DAVID SAID. Look at this! Julia Gillard was announcing the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse....

By Biff Ward

In 1990, a group of medical researchers theorised that Vincent van Gogh suffered from Ménière’s disease, rather than epilepsy....

Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn was born in Hobart in 1948. She spent her childhood and teenage years in Launceston,...

By Laura Elvery

For the second instalment of our summer of Sunday-reading, Griffith Review celebrates Kristina Olsson's 'Shell', an excerpt from her...

By Kristina Olsson

EVERY TIME ANYONE asks me how I came to Australia, I tell them I was adopted from China. It’s...

On the surface of the globe, for living matter in general, energy is always in excess; the question is...

By Jim Hearn