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.
The salesman
Selected for Best Australian Stories 2010MARLY SAT ON the front veranda, waiting. Shaun and Azza had been working on...
The bridal lesson
‘When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and...
Sunday Sunday
‘Politics is the art of shifting trouble from the living to the unborn.’– George Monbiot‘...let no man talk to me...
Gift to Sebastiano
THE TAILOR WAS always awed by the sight of a stranger returning from the lawless world of sleep so,...
Passing judgement
THE TWO JUDGES sat on an enclosed veranda. The apartment at the end of the peninsula looked over the...
Icing and salt
AFTER THE INITIAL impact, Eiji's feet slide backwards, carving tracks through the salted clay until his toes grip the...
Without country
THE RIGGER COILED the line of wet rope around his hand, reeling in the sea crate they were using...
The sun rising
'THIS IS HOW it was, when I saw you for the first time.'When Mackenzie Lachlan butted up against the...
Steeplechase
MY SISTER LIKES ponies and showjumping and arenas. Sometimes I jump with her because she wants me to. I...
The farmer
IT WAS THE farmer who built the shack, when he was a young man, long before I was born....
The Fever
THE DUSK SETTLES over a day in late autumn. The sun sets above the East Henan plain, a blood-red...
The geometry lesson
THERE WERE THREE things I knew then that time has never erased.We made a triangle, back when we lived...
