After many, many months of waiting, I can finally proudly announce that my first short story published in a real, solid magazine is available! My story ‘Martin(s)’ was chosen for the Personal Space issue of a very cool American magazine called SHERBERT Magazine. James received a copy of their last issue for his birthday last […]
This post is about a dilemma. A writing dilemma we all face at one time or another, if we’re wanting to be published. Do we save our best work for competitions? Or just get it published?
Here’s the scenario: you write a short story that is quite good, you wonder whether you’re going to write […]
Day (Three and) Four: (Wednesday the 9th and) Thursday the 10th of November
Apologies for missing yesterday. I was terribly, terribly busy. Well, yes and no. I wrote all day long. From sun-up to sun-down. I haven’t really got much to say about Wednesday except that I’ve reached the 10 000 word mark (in fact […]
Boy was I productive today! I woke at 8, had a shower.
The shower. The single worst shower I have ever used in my life. I’m hesitant to say anything bad against the centre, because they’re doing some great things for the Perth writing scene, but this shower is awful. For a start, the taps […]
So I’m alone in a creepy, heritage-listed house. I promised myself I wouldn’t freak myself out, but then I see a flash of something in the corner of my eye, or I hear a creak that I haven’t caused, and my heart gives a teensy flutter . It’s okay, I’ll be fine. After all, I’m […]
Well, RichyT asked for it, and it reminded me to do it! The excerpt you are about to experience was written when I was 11, as part of an in-school assignment. At the time, I was going through the massive RL Stine/Point Horror phase that I have mentioned previously. This particular tale tells of […]
The following is an excerpt from my story “This House,” recently selected for publication by the Spiny Babbler Anthology of Student Writing:
See this house. This house, with its unvarnished door and its windows like gaping sores. It towers above the rest of the neighbourhood, its peaked roof thrusting above trees and powerlines. This is where […]
This story was first published at Vibewire.net.
Today I found out that John (you know, little John, painter John) tried to kill himself. Me and Tan had been standing behind the bar and she was like
-You know who I haven’t seen in awhile? John. You know, little John, painter John.
And I said
-Yeah! He was such a […]