Fiction Archives

I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND what the Pilbara was. I didn’t even know how to spell Karratha properly. I didn’t care...

By Elizabeth Woods

FOR AS LONG as she could remember, Tania had carried a canister of capsicum spray in her workbag. She’d...

By Melanie Cheng

MICK FELT EXCITED coming down on the train but got cornered in the carriage by a tall heavy-boned old...

By Gregory Day

EVERYTHING IS FINE and then one day it isn't. Rogue jets on shower nozzles start spraying at odd angles,...

By Craig Cliff

THIS IS 1975, over a hundred and twenty years since the event, and I don't reckon history is that...

By Chris Armstrong

I'D HAD A successful trip to several South American countries and was boarding a LAN Air flight back to...

By CK Stead

THEY WERE WORRIED about the boy so they sent him to me. I needed a job done. You'd think...

By Emily Perkins

HE SAT THERE staring, the book he'd been reading forgotten on the table in front of him. He hadn't...

By William Brandt

NOW THAT YOU think about it, you realise you've known her your whole life. On the magazine pages and...

By Danielle Wood

SHE DOES NOT want to be seen. 'What is there to see,' she says. 'I am old.' She prefers...

By Arnold Zable

The second-last edition of our summer-reading series sees us return to Bruce Pascoe's 'Big Yengo', from Griffith Review 42:...

By Bruce Pascoe

The ship is the heterotopia par excellence. In civilisations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place...

By Pat Hoffie