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…]
This book deserves more attention. The concept is excellent. A fictional artist, Edna Cranmer, and her unnamed biographer, alternating time periods to tell their interwoven lives. It subtly tackles class boundaries, the status of women, and the complex relationship between memory, legacy, and truth. The way the story moves and flows and drops hints, then … [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…]