Fiction Archives

JASON CUPPED THE dog's testicles in the palm of his left hand and rolled them back and forth between...

By Andrew Humphreys

IT WAS A long time ago and we were unemployed. Me and Mike were sitting in his carport drinking....

By Jeremy Chambers

IN THE BEGINNING, my mother took the form of a book. A 220-page paperback, with a cream and orange...

By Edwina Preston

SHE STRUCK ME as attractive in a certain way, the way the head of a well-made axe can be...

By Nick Earls

LASTING A GOOD part of a minute, the sound was akin to the roar of two hundred horse carriages...

By Emma Ashmere

I WAS SEVENTEEN when the tide went out. I felt it in my lungs. At the height of its...

By Megan McGrath

ENORMOUS THINGS ARE in the water now. Bull sharks roll below the surface and carp with whiskers like whips...

By Anna Krien

ALICE TURNS HER key stealthily, like they're breaking into someone else's life. She pulls Drew after her, kicking the...

By Rose Michael

SHE WAKES IN darkness, shivering, a sudden chill on her back like the breath of a ghost. She lies...

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Selected for Best Australian Stories 2010MARLY SAT ON the front veranda, waiting. Shaun and Azza had been working on...

By Paddy O’Reilly

‘When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and...

By Lee Kofman

‘Politics is the art of shifting trouble from the living to the unborn.’– George Monbiot‘...let no man talk to me...

By David Sornig