A short story — Let me hypnotise you. No, seriously, this will be fun. It’s the summer of last year, so what are you doing? Okay, so you want me to go first? We don’t have a pocket watch, so you’ll have to light up your phone screen and swing it if you want…

“Please stop crying, Maisie. You don’t mind if I call you Maisie, or is it Maisey?” asked the young professional in her neat and organised office. Sitting aside from the desk with a plant pot and sign reading ‘Brigitte Hamilton, Youth Mental Health Counsellor’, she tried to engage the parent’s…

A runcing light spoils my book, the bulb decaying to orange and split-crackling for attention. Discharge throes of the silent electrical world around me. We’re deep in the night, the bulb, the novel and I, with no shops open. We persist, nosing closer to the page. My glasses make no…

An imaginative book from the author who was paid-off when he sued Hollywood for lifting a plot from his earlier novel which they turned into the film Alien. I would have given this 5 stars as it was good for most of the book but there are some trite and…

“Faith’s a compulsive reader” Agnes tells the tortured musician on a break who has come over to our table of six students; one daring guy. “…who sucks information and she won’t look up from the book because her ego assumes you don’t want to talk to the rest of us…

“Kyreni wound the tender cord around his foot and pulled it then soared away for an unnumbered day and chewed bent bark to cure it The tree was split to the end of it, so down the driftling span for orange days in a biscuit haze snaring beetles as they…