The 5201st Rocket
[originally intended to serve as a little side-story to a greater sci-fi novel I wanted to write. Maybe one day I'll use all the pieces...
Redundant
[written in 2011 for a high-school writing competition] It had happened so quickly and yet so slowly, all at the same time. Computers...
Time Guys
On Thursday we got the letter so on Friday we went into Centrelink; but on Monday, we went back in time. “I can’t believe we can’t get...
Chain of Command
The clan stared into the valley below. Grey without contrast save for blackened husks of trees, bark drawn tight across rotting frames. A...
Strange Times - Part 8: Strange Loop
[1980] Eighteen-years-old and desperate to cure my writer’s block, I put an ad on the town notice board: Have something to say? I will...
Strange Times - Part 4: Channel 99
[1983] The opening notes of Blade Runner echoed across the room from the tinny speaker, the roar of the spinners and blasting fire of...
Strange Times - Part 3: Deep Down
[1986] I poured another glass of Victoria Bitter from the tap, tilting it to keep the froth at acceptable levels while I stared at a...
Strange Times - Part 2: Hell Coach
[1979] Peter has asked me to write about something weird for his anthology. I didn’t have to think very far at all, I knew what I’d write...
Strange Times - Part 1: Temporal Telephone
[1988] I woke up close to four in the morning; the phone was ringing at the end of the street again. If I didn’t get up and pick it up,...
Strange Times - Prologue
The town where I grew up was a strange place Haverbrook was the name, east of Melbourne in deep, mysterious Gippsland. It wasn’t quite...