Playtime, funtime, sliding under the water time, giggles and laughter, being young.  Running the bath, mum puts in that extra special stuff and your left to your devices, naked with towel, just you and the water and the bubbles and the perfume in the air. The taps might still be running hissing, steaming up the [...]

With his prized metal case of magic tricks he leaves the rented second story flat on Riversdale Road Hawthorne to head for the equally well to do Camberwell.  No need to go into the office this morning, this job is just a couple of suburbs away. The air still has a taint of cold about [...]

Angles, sharp angles that point out to an apex, spindly and fragile but also like a wall of steel or something. Images of cows waiting in a milking yard. The yard is littered with cow shit and the air reeks of it. the cattle swish their restless tails, trying to sweep flies off their oversized [...]

Crash! A brief flicker in the eye of time. The car halts, decelerates almost instantaneously. It erupts from the steering wheel and glove compartment, flowers springing in full bloom to cushion any blow. Your head impaled into a sack of soft air that absorbs you and wraps around while the rest of the world dissolves [...]

English winter afternoons leading to the big day. Mum sitting around the open fire pace twirling old newspapers into concertinas to be used as fire lighters. She criss-crosses them over and over, the print coming off in her hands. The first licks of flame – yellowy blue that settle into a steady blaze. The coal [...]

The outlet pipe for the washing machine hangs over its side almost as if it’s had enough. Hanging there exhausted and tired, but it delivers another surge of suds with poise, the machine cycles through another rinse, spinning at the top of its range, whizzing and humming like a CD player spinning a CD, extracting [...]

A grey overcast morning taxi arriving at 6.53 stepping out into a brisk memory of chilly winter mornings the taxi atmosphere warps around me in a blanket of safety hopefully like the journey before me Check in forms filled waivers waived credit cards swiped health insurance checked all looking good and above board Not sure [...]

He works on the ferries blue overalls and a friendly smile “good luck mate’ he says as we set sail the ferry pulls away rocking on Sydney Harbour we sway under the bridge bound for Darling Harbour and Milsons point the engines are vibrating up through the hull into the frame of the seat I’m [...]

A conversation on train “the day I found out they were seeing each other” “she’s so stupid” “message was if I got to talk to her” “oh my gosh” “I expected you to be ‘this’ person” “what the hell” “blocked her, can’t see anything on my facebook” “who is she, really” “she stole my boyfriend” [...]

A girl on the train in a school uniform cheeks blushed red hides in the corner a Maori boy is acting cool she’s looking at him you can tell she’s keen maybe tonight she’ll write about him in her diary confess her love express her dreams. Maybe by the end of the week she might [...]