Summer Reading
CULTURE
At the Condamine Crossroads Motel
Janette Turner ...
Meg parks right between the goal posts of the Welcome to Condamine sign. Small print below Condamine, white against green, announces:...
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CULTURE
This Helplessness
Steven Amsterdam
I’m afraid we don’t have a lot of choices for treatment here.” “You mean I don’t have a lot of choices?” “Yes.” “Then I’m the one who’s...
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CULTURE
Three Boys
Sonya Hartnett
He straightens from the grass and sees them immediately, already close, already seeing him, and he’s stunned he didn’t hear the danger...
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CULTURE
The Orange-bellied Parrot
Nicholas Shakespeare
Alison had never liked her grandmother, who lived alone in a big overheated apartment in Zurich, and so when Helen went into hospital after...
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CULTURE
Whirlpool
Cate Kennedy
“Mum says you better get inside right now.” Louise is already getting ready for the photo: she has one big hot-roller pinned to the top of...
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SOCIETY
A Touch of the Sun
David Malouf
Earlier than the sun and stronger, our need for comfort in the dark. Always on time with its doodle-do and smallgrass recitativo we...
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SOCIETY
The Voyage
Murray Bail
It was not so much a headlong rush from Europe, more a slow return to Sydney, for instead of hopping onto a plane, which would have been...
More ...The Gaza Strips
Christos Tsiolkas
I’m ageing; I’m becoming the old fart I never wished to be. I am succumbing to nostalgia and its lethal evil twin, bitterness. I listen to...
More ...First-Class Passage
MJ Hyland
UPDATE: A version of this piece by MJ Hyland, shortlisted for a BBC National Short Story award.*It’s not even eight o’clock and...
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