Silence Without

Waking up with the same headache that put you down is grossly unfair. I follow Sam around the house chanting "Shame. Shame....

We had a Ginkgo biloba  plant when I was a child. It sat in a pot on the front verandah by the door, where it was mostly neglected. It alw...

My desk is against some book cases, as if I can't have a window, a wall of books provides ample static life and colour. This time, I wa...

The memory washed in with the warmth; first through my nose, down my throat to rest cozy in my lungs. My cheeks are next, as the only thing...

The wiki article tells it all. It's a pile of rocks in Coogee Bay What the article fails to mention is that it moves. It must  move....

Today was brilliant. I didn't sleep in too far, and gave myself a slow enough wake up/get up process that I felt absolutely fine, inste...

I bought something. As in, I went out of my way to purchase an item I didn't need but wanted, with money better spent elsewhere. Strang...

"This is it, isn't it?" They are two men, not old, in the water behind me. "This is how we die." The water is j...

The first indication of Poppy's thawing was the call outs. She didn't want anything to do with us, until we made to leave the room,...

The last two nights I have had such cruel dreams. Because my dreams are so far from the norm they are always semi-lucid, I am never unaware...

There's something in the Moreton Bay and Port Jackson fig trees which line the streets and parks of Sydney, some shuttered tension whic...

For once, my unconscious was kind. She was crawling up my leg when I woke, and I knew it was her. No flailing and slapping in a frenzy of ...

I've been kicking around a couple of short story ideas for half a year now. So many pages scribbled while sitting on trains. Aware of th...

A church in Reykjavík, Iceland, with uncushioned pews and people standing in the aisles. The music had become applause had become blurred ...

"Dance like no one is watching." I've always liked this sentiment, although of late the internet has turned it into some pi...

On our last night in London we bought Tsing Tao beer and steamed bao in Chinatown. The streets were dry and a full of a cold wind which cou...

Buckingham Palace is, well, yes. It is yet another stately building in a city full of stately buildings. Historians and architects alike may...

It's been only four days since leaving Glasgow, and yet it already feels like that moist cold flat happened to someone else in some oth...

Tonight I had my viewing of  Showgirls  and... I honestly don't know what to say. I can understand how The Room  got made; all it neede...

We're sitting in The Kenilworth in Edinburgh, a traditional pub with a ridiculous variety of whiskeys available. On the skirting aroun...