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.
Decoyed by orthodoxy
Veritee watches the familiar sight of one or other of her parents' backs as it disappears. Separately or together....
The soapbox
(For Bruce Murray)WARWICK LOVED HIS soapbox because standing on it he'd become the centre of attention for once, especially...
The water person and the tree person
FOR SOME REASON, Andy Melrose's wife had recently started describing him in company as a ‘water person'. Perhaps this...
A boat called Brotherly Love
ON THE DAY they launched Brotherly Love, the whole village accompanied them on the long descent to the bay....
Refuge
EMRE ALWAYS RISES at five. His palliasse has to be slid beneath the couch so that Frau Losberg might...
Dinner with my brother
WENT TO MY brother's new town house for dinner last night. Bro cooked up a fine dinner – sweet...
Invisible moon
SHE STANDS AT the window, dropped into a jet-lagged dream. The street below is covered in snow. She knows...
The broom closet
IT'S LIKE THIS. Your baby is howling just as loud as the never-ending stream of stinking road-trains, and Jemimah's...
Dozer
HE'D DRIVEN DOZERS for thirty years. From bobcats to D10s. As a young bloke, he'd started in a warehouse...
The possibility of water
I DON'T EVEN really know where I first met Eli. She was just one of those people I saw...
Busted
THERE'S A BANGING on the front door. So early on a Monday? Don't they know I'm a student? I...
Justine and Col and Mr Heggarty
The mango trees are behind Mr Heggarty's milking shed. I can see them from the road, three dark cut-out...
