Journal
Articles
The writer in a time of change
A WHILE AGO I went to a lecture on geothermal power. Afterwards I got talking to the man sitting...
Four shots at silence
1HIGH STREET, PRAHRAN. An ageing Toyota Corolla heads through drizzle for Punt Road. Once past Chapel Street the driver...
The silent majority
IT IS A truth universally acknowledged, Jo decided, that a bored teenager with a permanent marker is a pain...
Finding Girrawandi
WHEN HE EMERGED from the rainforest after he, his brothers and father had set out eight months before, Simon...
The colour of death
SOME PEOPLE LOSE perspective regardless of the occasion. Brigit is prowling at the edges of Loney Tonkin's funeral and...
The red wheelbarrow
I HEARD A growl, deep and low, and then a yelp. I had been lying awake – I always...
Finding the angles
‘EVERY WOMAN ADORES a fascist.'– Sylvia Plath 1. The puppyWITH PAUL, SEX has become vicious altruism: Come on, I'll give you...
Paul’s first day
PAUL WAS ALWAYS the first person to be killed. I met him at his practical exam. The trainees were waiting...
The other side of the world
TELL ME A story, the boy said every night. So I did. Every night, a different story. Fairytales, Dr...
The end of Pippa, the beginning of Claire
SHE WASN'T ALWAYS like this. Starched and furrowed. She was still young, or youngish. She had everything, people said:...
Her boredom trick
WHEN CLARA FINALLY arrives, she is not only half an hour late, she has also brought her dog with...
The disappointment
IT IS USUAL for The Disappointed to come in pairs, but Bonnie always comes alone. In the small, overheated...
