Fiction Archives

I HEARD A growl, deep and low, and then a yelp. I had been lying awake – I always...

‘EVERY WOMAN ADORES a fascist.'– Sylvia Plath 1. The puppyWITH PAUL, SEX has become vicious altruism: Come on, I'll give you...

By Lee Kofman

PAUL WAS ALWAYS the first person to be killed. I met him at his practical exam. The trainees were waiting...

By Georgina Luck

TELL ME A story, the boy said every night. So I did. Every night, a different story. Fairytales, Dr...

By Sherryl Clark

SHE WASN'T ALWAYS like this. Starched and furrowed. She was still young, or youngish. She had everything, people said:...

By Toni Jordan

WHEN CLARA FINALLY arrives, she is not only half an hour late, she has also brought her dog with...

IT IS USUAL for The Disappointed to come in pairs, but Bonnie always comes alone. In the small, overheated...

By Danielle Wood

SCHOOL WAS FINISHED for the year, and only two days into the holidays we had the makings of a...

By Edwina Shaw

SAINT NICK WAS getting on, after all – he for one was not surprised to have fallen ill, at...

By Will Elliott

THE MOTHER OF my daughter's best friend called him ‘the composer'. She said she bought ironbark honey from him,...

By Patrick Holland

DEAR LANCE,I am sitting on the back seat of the bus, heading for Melbourne. This morning, my father took...

By Sydney Smith

BEN GETS ON the phone immediately and rings his brother who farms two hours' drive away. It's raining! he...

By John Kinsella