"Two friends let the cat out of the bag"
“You’re right, Guantanamo Bay is the much stronger film,” Beth said, leaning forward to take her glass from the coffee table. She sat back into the couch, crossing her legs towards me, the hem of her blue wrap dress sliding...
"Debauchery with heart."
“I’m really sorry, mate,” the man said. He leaned forward to take his hand. “I don’t get it,” the kid said, trying to hold back the tears. “It’s just kicking a football around.” “I know,” he sighed, patting his hand. “It’s just...
It took her forever to find him, the backpacker’s day off with the poppies. His American accent grated her father, as too his artistic soul and retro flare. Strutting into his picnic, she let him woo her with all that wasn’t...
"Two marine park divers work out an adrenalin rush after a close encounter with a great white shark."
The fifty-two-metre fishing trawler loomed high above us, its rust-ravaged hull already succumbing to the relentless invasion of barnacles and other parasitic sea life. Listing forty-odd degrees on its port side, it exposed its belly like a lazy dog hoping...
The warning bell breaks the silence, and my concentration. The soft, supposedly unobtrusive note chills my overheated body to the bone. Only ten seconds left.I’m okay. There’s plenty of time. I just have to block everything out and focus.I can’t...
"Santa Claus is coming..."
Spinning on the ball of her black leather flat, she twirls in front of her friend. The hem of her light-green tartan dress fans around her thighs in unison with her dirty-blonde curls. The sudden motion brings them face-to-face and...
"A strange town and nowhere to stay..."
Wendy scowled at the screen of her smartphone, the inane smiley-face emoticons fuelling her anger. Her blood boiled. She knew it was a mistake to rely on such a tenuous relationship, but her husband had insisted. The latter part of...
"She knows it'll earn her a smacked bottom, but she can't help herself"
The delicious aroma of onion and garlic simmering away in butter filled my nostrils as soon as I opened the door to my apartment. I smiled to myself. I loved it when Lizzy came over unannounced. "Hey, Babe," I called,...