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Requiem
Selected for Best Australian Stories 2006ON MARCH 11, 2004, Fresneda walked down the street outside El Pozo station in...
Emily
Selected for Best Australian Stories 2006IN ORDER TO get my novel published, I told book publishers Allen & Unwin...
Mac attack
BACK IN THE very early '90s, McDonald's is still number one. Before Nandos and Subway and juice bars, and...
Just passing through
I MET A hippy on the road to Port Vila. His pale dreadlocks set him apart from the other...
Publish and grow
WHAT POSSESSES A twenty-seven-year-old writer without publishing success, without professional employment, living in a new country and with no...
Lopping tall poppies
I WANT TO play God Only Knows at my wedding. A weird confession perhaps, but when you write books with swear...
Developing a Rimbaud complex
No one is serious at seventeen.– Arthur Rimbaud LIKE MANY CHILDREN born in the 1980s, I grew up mostly with...
The last time I saw Grant
I WAS SCROUNGING for records in a little store in Brisbane's West End the last time I saw Grant....
Halfway through the days of our lives
A FEW WEEKS ago, I almost killed my baby. I was driving out of Brisbane's CBD, on a steep...
Mending a broken link
I'M CELEBRATING MY mother. Pink tissue paper and ribbon fold and tie over the gift: foot lotion. Lavender scented....
The Australian way
THE MORNING AFTER the Cronulla riot dawned cool, calm and clear. Early light caught surfers lolling on the small...
The vulnerability threshold
"WE TELL OURSELVES stories in order to live." So begins The White Album, Joan Didion's collection of essays about the...
