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 7: No Vacancies
[1977] A childhood friend called me up today. If those words above do not inspire in you a type of anxious apprehension, perhaps you are...
Strange Times - Part 6: After School
[1989] The primary school had no one around, dark, got the moon coming through the windows like art. Like I needed it to get scary, it...
Strange Times - Part 5: The Disappearance of Phil Collins
[1985] It was a rainy Saturday and I had settled on the back veranda with a book to read – The Trial – when Emma burst into the backyard,...
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...
Upon Viewing
Urban legends have little basis in concrete facts, statistics or evidence. That’s why I dislike them. Almost all urban legends rely on...