Fiction Archives

THE GREY LIGHT of the cold November afternoon, like tracing paper, was getting weaker as he reached the southern...

By Nikola Gurovic

JESS STOOD AT the edge of the dam holding her daughter's hand. She had said they were going to...

By Romy Ash

Selected for Best Australian Stories 2012Howqua to Jamieson.My name is Nelson after the Pommy sailor who lost an eye...

By David Astle

WE MET AT work. I thought he was unattainable and I mostly felt like a young girl when I...

By Andrew Belk

KATHERINE LEFT EVERYTHING. She found a place where other devotees lived. They were French. They offered her a mattress...

By Mira Robertson

IN THE WINDOW on the other side of the narrow canal a woman sat sewing.Susan wished she'd stop, just...

By Sally-Ann Jones

DELAGE HAD AN engineer's mentality, although he had no training or diploma in engineering, more an inventor's mentality, directed...

By Murray Bail

THE HOUSE ON THE CORNER THEY LIVED IN a small, white house on the corner, a block back from the...

1A MOMENT'S HESITATION was all it took. She stood there trembling on the tree. Noose around her neck. Waiting...

By Ed Wright

INTIMACY'Keep me,' – I said to him –'let me be only one – even half – the whole half (whichever...

HEADING NORTHSS BOMBALA, 1924WHEN PHIL PORTER started getting restless at the mills and talking of the opportunities up north,...

By Lyndel Caffrey

HERE IS THE writer in this city of writers, this glittering dry mouth in the north where we can...