Category: writing

  • another story from the bush

    here i am settled in country SA, making preserves from stolen harvests and bookshelves from whatever’s to hand, and chatting with the 90 year old neighbour who, on hearing we had moved in next door, responded with “you’ll want to get rid of those milk thistles.” she loves us really. I have scavenged and fixed…

  • march short story podcast: plain indians

    this is what happens when you realise no-one has written a western about bush regeneration, and dare yourself to be the first: [display_podcast]

  • bitter herbs

    in less than a week i’ll be driving down the track to my new home in some obscure town in south australia. five and a bit years in alice springs. leaving is a familiar, almost comforting experience, and again strange; like repeating an old dream, you’re never sure if it means the same thing twice.…