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.
Long grass over home
Winner of the 2012 Josephine Ulrick Literature PrizeFor Jannine GrahamMRS ESDALE BOUGHT her petrol there until she got too...
On Bruny
THEY LEFT HOBART as dusk was falling. Not an orange dusk with stiff black silhouettes but a green dusk,...
Damming
PATRICK SWIMS THROUGH the mountains. The eddies waver them. They're the colour of oil slick. The light blushes his...
Across the Bass Strait
Mum was sitting by herself on a bench attached to the wall of the ship under a Perspex roof. We sat next to her holding on to the bottom of the bench. I told Mum that I had been sick and she wiped my forehead and cheek and said, 'I'm sorry. I'm so sorry,' and it looked like she was crying. She said it was just the sea spray and the cold. And it was cold. It was freezing and the wind cut into my back like I had no skin at all. I could hear the water crack against the ship, feel it hit then hear the spray shoot up. Only I couldn't see it. I couldn't see anything past the light cast out on the deck. Out there the world was raging in the blackness.
