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WHEN WILL IT END? • by James Hannan

January 19, 2022Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

As I walk the boundary of my property after dusk, I don’t trust my eyes. I’m trying to make sense of various shapes around me. Shadows lurking behind trees are like people hiding from me. Bushes, jutting out from the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Australia, cancer, death of a spouse, empty nest, James Hannan

THE OLD ABORIGINE • by Brian S. Lee

June 4, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Protesters waved placards outside the museum, where civilization had memorialized ancient barbarism. Others might march against climate change or corrupt politicians; these, disgusted by the indignities inflicted for so long on the indigenous, demanded that the aborigine’s bones should not… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Australia, Brian S. Lee, museums, prehistoric people

LUNAR SEAS • by Myra King

September 7, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Alkina opens wide one eye against the cold steel of her late husband’s telescope and remembers on a clear night, less than three months ago, Mare Fecunditatis, appearing so close she would have sworn water lay there. That morning he’d… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Australia, death of a spouse, domestic violence, magical realism, Myra King, pregnancy

NORTH STAR • by Suzanne Conboy-Hill

December 16, 2015Every Day Fiction 37 Comments

“Come on, prezzie time.” Stella’s mother slapped a hat on Stella’s head and held out a tube of sunblock, “You’ll need it to go outside.” “I won’t because I’m not going outside.” “Please, just stop grumping, see if you can’t… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories Australia, Christmas, December Invitational, Suzanne Conboy-Hill

THE JOURNEY • by Deven D Atkinson

November 13, 2007Every Day Fiction 15 Comments

At first it was just an animal trace, barely discernible to the naked eye. But soon it turned into a dirt trail, a country road, a superhighway and a stellar warp-lane. Ian Bailey, a Nundle Koala from north of Sydney,… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Science Fiction, Stories Australia, Deven D Atkinson, space
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