Journal
Articles
The real deal
DURING THE FIRST month of my residency I knew hardly anybody in Hanoi. Although I told my friends and...
This is my life
QUINN’S ON THE porch. I can see him over Mum’s shoulder through the smudged vertical strip of glass next...
Piggy
‘Yes. Yes. I am ready,’ I said. Unsure of what I was getting ready for. Something good. Something inexplicable....
The landlord’s son
THE LANDLORD’S SON arrived unannounced, just before dinner. Mia saw him from the window as he crossed the paddock...
This woman’s work
Life seemed easier – in the Tampon ads – like go roller-skating or scale a mountain with a heavy...
Conditions of Entry
Thirty lines max, it says. Only twenty-nine left as some wag might have quipped but who’s counting? All bags must be opened for...
Spirit Mama Bali
for Dessi, Thinker Nails (Ubud) Spirit Mama Bali wears a wet shirt. Her honey amber coconuts are unrepentant, and the crescent...
Libretti
You spend your Centrelink payment on a dinner package to the opera. Madama Butterfly. You rent a suit, tie,...
Hello weary traveller
your coming was whispered to me, long-long ago my heart warms and sizzles to have you folded at my roots your arrival...
Year of the Snake
celebrate the Year of the Snake with Penfolds! Marshall is marking this Lunar New Year with a special edition Emberton III speaker new...
Shopping at Babel
All civilized states have considered it their primary duty to provide for equal weights, measures, and coins – REPORT FROM...
Menopause™
Because I was not yet forty-five, my doctor asked the pathologist to look at my fertility hormones. The results showed that while my ovaries were still producing oestradiol, the strongest form of oestrogen, my levels of follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinising hormone were high. These results indicated I was perimenopausal – I would likely go through menopause sometime in the next two years.
