The vitamin aisle at the pharmacy is overwhelming. Rows and rows of small bottles displayed by brand, not by content. I have to walk up and down multiple times to find what I want. I try to catch the eye of a staff member but no one comes. I see one helping a father and … [Read more…]
This is my non-entry in the Townsville City Council Short Story Competition on the theme “My life in the North”. Just because I’m not eligible to enter doesn’t mean I can’t write something. The fan whirred. Click. Click. It’s uneven. A wobble each rotation. I can’t remember the last time I slept in silence. A … [Read more…]
Suitcase in hand and a shipping container to follow, I set foot in Townsville for the first time on 19 June 2015. It was dark when I arrived. I didn’t know what my new home looked like until the morning. A few weeks earlier I’d signed a contract to move across the country to a … [Read more…]
I’d stopped reading. I loved it, but I’d stopped. Somewhere between 2010 and 2015 I became a lapsed reader. And I was most definitely a lapsed reader by 2017. Which is why I took up the JCU Library Reading Challenge in 2018. And it’s thanks to that reading challenge I got reading again. I didn’t … [Read more…]
I used to read. Lots. I’d miss train stops and tram stops. I’d read waiting for lectures to start and I’d read up the back of them when I was bored. I destroyed Mum’s copy of The Mists of Avalon from constantly taking it in and out of my handbag because I couldn’t put it … [Read more…]