Fiction Archives

I HATED JUDY'S first boyfriend, as expected. He was oddly shaped, like a sweet potato. His clothes were exactly...

THERE'S THE TUG of it in her stomach, always, a heavy thing. Sarah's hot, clammy like she knows she...

By Sally Breen

A YOUNG WOMAN walks down the street towards an unremarkable terrace house wearing a fetching combination of op-shop style...

By Meera Atkinson

THE WOMAN WHO stands on the door-step is short and chunky. Her legs are like an elephant's. They go...

By Helen Gildfind

Selected for Best Australian Stories 2006I NEVER DID find out what Jimmy saw in that meat – Jimmy's a...

By Will Elliott

SOMEBODY DIES EVERY two seconds, and then every two seconds somebody is born. It's what Mum told me when...

Selected for Best Australian Stories 2006IN THE '80s I was in love with Robert Smith. I also hoped against...

By Karen Hitchcock

Selected for Best Australian Stories 2006SHE WAS FIFTY-NINE, rich, divorced for a year, and out alone on a Saturday...

I NEVER MET my grandfather, but we keep his skull on the top shelf of the hutch, behind two...

By Cameron Muir

THAT THEY WERE both named Nigel is a distant memory, flotsam fading away. For now, it's the smells of...

By James Phelan

THE APARTMENT IS his again. She's gone – he's sure of it. They cooked up a storming fight over...

By Stephen Smith

Society is concerned to tame the Photograph, to temper the madness which keeps threatening to explode in the face...

By David Sornig