Fiction Archives

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...

Winner of the 2012 Josephine Ulrick Literature PrizeFor Jannine GrahamMRS ESDALE BOUGHT her petrol there until she got too...

By Matthew Lamb

THEY LEFT HOBART as dusk was falling. Not an orange dusk with stiff black silhouettes but a green dusk,...

By Erin O’Dwyer

PATRICK SWIMS THROUGH the mountains. The eddies waver them. They're the colour of oil slick. The light blushes his...

By Romy Ash