Darkness Bronwyn Rodden Short Stories Darkness runs through these stories, played out in harsh Australian sun, as in 'A Taste of Persimmon', through a murder under watery English light in 'The Successful Candidate' or in the complexities of living across cultures, as in 'Maternal Eyes...
Maps for the Lost Susie Greenhill Short Stories The characters of ‘Maps for the Lost’ are immersed in, altered by, and transformed into nature. A Czech artist re-maps the world by night in order to find his lover, a diver sinks his yacht under the weight of coral and fish. The collection is a k...
Small Forest William Lane Short Stories Small Forest is a collection of nine short stories. The stories are linked by recurring concerns, such as the return of the repressed. The effects of music and the nature of relationships between generations are other concerns. In ‘Vivien’s Finger...
Goodbye Tom Morrow Mel Hall Short Stories 'Goodbye Tom Morrow' is a collection of short stories, flash fiction and creative non-fiction. Mel's style could be described as experimental or rhizomatic, with a strong leaning towards rhythm and musicality rather than plot. The work explores gr...
Everybody Loves a Good Cook Book Craig Cormick Short Stories Everybody Loves a Good Cook Book is a collection of fiction that plays with realities and histories, whether it is picking up a hitch-hiking Captain Cook in modern day Hawaii who is determined to understand what happened to him there and make his ...
The Age of Fibs Beth Spencer Short Stories A collection that crosses boundaries of genre and time; meditating on history, memory, representation and desire. A ten year old visits her brother in hospital across a state border after a car accident; growing up in the age of Fibs bras and the ...
The Dying Rain and Other Forays into the Bramble Noir Guy Salvidge Short Stories Meet Tyler Bramble, the grimy future’s answer to Philip Marlowe. Armed with what he considers to be a razor-sharp wit and what his supervisor considers to be a troubling history vis-a-vis illicit pharmaceuticals, Tyler takes on drug dealers, dodgy...
Two Sets of Books Ruairi Murphy Short Stories Set in Hobart public library, Two Sets of Books contains five stories, each exposing the astonishing secret lives of the staff who work there. A book shelver burns down the library in a hate-crime inspired by love. A technical support officer recr...
Remnants of Sound Catherine Moffat Short Stories The short stories in Remnants of Sound slide between the real and the unreal, between the straightforward and the experimental. They chart the path of loners, drifters, the homeless and the heartbroken. They are stories of people at the edge of th...
Flicker of Justice, No More Ashley Kalagian Blunt Short Stories Sydney, 1980: The Turkish consul-general is assassinated by two gunmen, and an international terrorist group claim responsibility. Vrezh, an Armenian-Australian, longs to be involved, believing the attacks are justice for the Armenian genocide. T...
Mosaic of Loss Arna Radovich Short Stories A woman rails against infertility, another against stifling responsibility. A couple struggle to accept the unacceptable and two families from opposite sides of the world find common ground in their loss. The fictional nature of closure, the peril...
