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.
Blue and black
MY MOTHER WAS a worrier. She speculated endlessly about whether her pie would be considered the best at bake...
Sonny
Click here to listen to Adam Thompson read ‘Sonny’. ON SOME WINTER mornings in Launceston, the fog doesn’t lift until midday. Today...
The half-life of Ant Zaniolo
THIS IS THE one memory of Ant I fully trust. I’m in the backyard, in the veggie patch littered with...
Mount Trepidation
THE MOUNTAIN WAS a sheer volcanic core that rose improbably from the lush plain. It had been named Mount...
The mists of down below
THERE WAS NOTHING Agent Kayl Green feared more than the kindness of strangers, something that could never really be...
The signal line
GEO AND WES didn’t talk on the fifteen-minute drive from the airport, although that in itself wasn’t unusual. When...
At the Russian restaurant
Listen to Lee Kofman reading ‘At the Russian restaurant’. AT MY REQUEST, Slavik is taking me to a Russian restaurant in the heart...
Refugium
THIS IS HOW it began for those in flight: with the scent of the sea, the sun playing on...
Brisbane, late 1960s
YOUR MOTHER DOESN’T like the school holidays. She has to run the shop as well as keep an eye...
Death by the book
THE NASTY CHEMICAL smell had gone. His eyelids were shut and she wanted to have one more peep to...
The elsewheres of Charlie Bolt
NO ONE KNEW what happened to Charlie Bolt. He had a wife, somewhere. She left to find ‘happiness’, believing...
The town turns over
Listen to Laura Elvery read ‘The town turns over’. IF YOU WANT to know how we got here, we will tell you. Once, not...
