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Where Have You Been? by Wendy James
Where Have You Been? by Wendy James is a psychological thriller based on the scenario of the main character, Susan, whose older sister went missing when Susan was a child. When Susan’s mother, w… more →
The Australian Literature Reviewwrote 6 months ago: sarificed 1. i love my bathroom with its green asbestos walls and its ancient leaky gas water … more →
possessed
wrote 6 months ago: 1. why shouldn’t a poet wear pink lipstick? pearl earrings? a miniskirt? white stockings and … more →
rapt
wrote 7 months ago: warning: explicit language and description of sexual violence. i try not to be obscene. rapt. it’s a … more →
jinx
wrote 8 months ago: 1 the ocean is green, like glass, like eyes. i would like to wrap it around myself like a cloak, tyi … more →
cursed
wrote 8 months ago: 1. anger. there is anger all around me. it is almost crazy in its effort to self-destruct. ma … more →
hexed
wrote 9 months ago: beatnik 1. i come home from school alone. i go to my bedroom, to my grandmother’s dressing table, wh … more →
Getting inside our heads
wrote 10 months ago: I wonder if you’ve ever tried to describe a scene you have imagined but found your audience wasn’t q … more →
enchanted
wrote 11 months ago: enchanted 1. this is 1a, the top thirty five iqs. i am the eye of the peacock’s feather here, for th … more →
Review: Sweet Old World by Deborah Robertson
wrote 1 year ago: Impossible to resist! Forty-something David Quinn, a successful Australian journalist, has come to t … more →
Tumbling and Balancing - Susan Johnson's A Big Life
wrote 1 year ago: Susan Johnson: A Big Life, Macmillan Australia. Published in Overland 135, Winter 1994. In many resp … more →
Lines of Flight - Marion Campbell
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wrote 1 year ago: Lines of Flight, Marion Campbell. Freemantle Arts Centre Press 1985. From The Good Reading: 100 Crit … more →
Peter Carey’s First Novel
wrote 1 year ago: Review of Bliss, By Peter Carey, University of Queensland Press, 1981. Going Down Swinging Issue 5 S … more →
'A Plethora of Women'. David Ireland - City of Women Allen Lane 1981.
wrote 1 year ago: ‘A Plethora of Women’. David Ireland – City of Women Allen Lane 1981. Originally … more →
spell-binding
wrote 1 year ago: 1. sugar! the white, the precious, the expensive stuff, each speck a crystal (and diamonds are cryst … more →
charms
wrote 1 year ago: 1. ice weed. thick green starfish on mauve clay against the grey, ochre-lichened wall, and douggie t … more →
entrances
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wrote 1 year ago: 1. down the side of the house was this long, thin shallow channel made of bricks, bright, rich and w … more →
The Storm | Section 1 - Part 1
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wrote 1 year ago: (Note: This blog is a novel. Each update represents another section of the book. By using the Index … more →
So it’s not just my own crazy idea!
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wrote 1 year ago: Do you ever have those days or weeks when you wonder if all the effort you’re putting into something … more →
Review: The Lightkeeper's Wife by Karen Viggers
wrote 2 years ago: A man arrives with a letter, which prompts the elderly Mary Mason to flee to Tasmania’s Bruny Island … more →
