It was an ordinary morning until a SWAT team broke down your door and arrested you for the assassination of a Supreme Court Justice. You'd awoken just seconds before your alarm was set to go off at 7am after a great night's sleep. You'd padded down the hall to the shower, hummed off key amid... Continue Reading →
They worked all year on the homemade birthday gift. First they debated - passionately - like all good siblings, about the location. They used terms like moisture profile, average sunshine hours and likely yield...then they gave in and agreed with Simone like they always did. Together they pegged and string lined a spot beside the... Continue Reading →
Every sentence in this character's letter to an ex begins with the word Maybe. Maybe I shouldn't be sending this to you...but then again, maybe I should have sent it months, or even years, ago. Maybe you'll toss it out without reading and believing these words I've sweated over, but maybe you'll devour each line with... Continue Reading →
It was supposed to be an even trade, but I was cheated. It happened every time we decided to share meals. He'd always start eating with gusto and 'forget' to trade until lots of the best bits were gone. I told the story of the best way to share, that my parents had put in... Continue Reading →
They sent postcards from every country, while I stayed home. It was fantastic to see them spread their wings like this. I felt their excitement shouting off the postcards - gelati at a sidewalk cafe after getting lost in Venice, the thrum of the flamenco guitars in Seville, the colours, smells and assault on all... Continue Reading →
You own a dry cleaning store. The clothes tell stories. After years you have become adept at decoding their whispers... Grass stains that tell of backyard adventures, hilarity from five year olds and harmless wrestling in the sunshine...grass stains that are evidence of a loss of innocence found while forced to your knees. One set... Continue Reading →
The field was filled with children under the age of 10. The ref was practically tearing out his eyelashes (his hair having been long since sacrificed) and the coach was nearly hoarse from yelling "instructions". I don't know why they bothered - the kids were having a ball! Rules? Strategy? Who cared? The game still... Continue Reading →
He wants to pay you money. All you have to do is stand by a certain window, reading a certain book. Unfortunately it is not a very good book so you feel like you are earning every penny and have no qualms taking the cash. Anyone thinks they can write these days - sheesh. It's... Continue Reading →
Your character suddenly understands the language of mosquitoes. The day I realised what all that high winey buzzing from mosquitoes was all about changed my view of so much! Mosquitoes are anthropological researchers from the future, trying to pin point exactly where and when everything went wrong - while collecting biological samples to save the... Continue Reading →
You wake up next to your tombstone. Shit. You'd obviously gone over your carefully rationed two fingers of scotch last night. Whenever England lost in the cricket you lost your self control. You rub your face and think about what must have gone down. Danni would have banished your soggy, mopey, shell-of-man-self to the workshop... Continue Reading →
The only way we could afford to live in that place was for ten of us to split the rent. It was a 3 bedroom-rooftop-deck-boasting-penthouse apartment in Queenstown NZ. It was the ski season. We were sick of rich wankers coming to town and grabbing all the best real estate! After seasons spent commuting over... Continue Reading →
You fall in love with a hologram. You knew it was a risk when you volunteered to test the new application. Designed to serve, to flatter, to match your political views and sense of humour, your values, your preferences in all things from sport to art to the firmness of a mattress and how you... Continue Reading →
There wasn't a cloud in the sky. That's always a bad sign. Never more so than on the final morning of a calendar shoot. Not that kind of calendar. Without clouds this will be the third sunrise in a row that fails to be cover-worthy. Island - check, palm trees - check, crystal waters, white... Continue Reading →
Out of a job, you agree to wear a lizard costume on a street corner to advertise for a company. You realise you have no idea what the company sells. "Mate! You look ridiculous. Whadaya doin?" "It's a job" you reply for the third time in half an hour, to your fifth heckler of the... Continue Reading →
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