I went for the budget option, never having had the things before, but lately it had been nagging away at me and things had been getting a might blurry on the word front.  I felt as if I had been swept into a science fiction movie set, bright lights, elegantly coiffed female service officers etc. [...]

There was a grey ceramic wash basin – a double actually, and when we first moved to that dusty little country town both vents were filled with water and if you looked inside you could see them. Hundreds of black dots with tails. Some of them starting to sprout legs. Curious, I’d fish one out [...]

Being in between places on an aeroplane, the muted tube humming through the stratos at 700 mph, skimming across the face of time, beating it, leaving it behind. Between the promising aroma of airline food and the next round of Johnny and dry we’re living outside of time, but I know when I arrive it’s [...]

We keep being told how dangerous it is to sniff glue, or the solvents in spray paint or Textas, but it’s so appealing …….. Whenever I whip the top off a whiteboard marker, I indulge from a distance in that crazy petrochemnical cloud that seems to hang around it. I don’t go too much for [...]

I had a Penguin book at one stage; Check your I.Q, or something similar. I think I might have picked it up at a second hand book store during my ‘mind expanding phase’. Used to go to a lot of those sorts of places, various peels of words underneath covers of varying states of repair [...]

It’s a very physical thing isn’t it, an axe? Purposeful, you know what it’s designed to do, you can make it do other things, but its prime directive is that objective of splitting the hairs in the wood. The last one I used had been around a while, no shiny oiled piece of stainless steel, [...]

When I got abducted it was pretty scary, I’d been up on the roof of Dalgety’s stock agents checking out pin prick stars and I noticed a classic cigar shaped disc hanging near the mount, and in a blink it had moved 180 degrees in the sky and it was getting bigger. They must have [...]

The shattering applause cleared for the raising of the Maestro’s baton and the Orchestra fired into action. The piston of the double basses, the typewriter percussion and swarming strings played the prelude, before the entrance of the violin which swooped and dived in, as if from a great height. The pilot weaving the steering column [...]

“Price check on register Seven”, a squawking mid range shrill voice calls out, interrupting the omni-present music overload. A fifteen year old high school skate board hero in Safeway green moves past at a pace in search of the product that register seven needs checked. The customer standing at the gates is waiting to bolt [...]

Ahhh the sweet fragrance of a new bill, they always seem to find me. Something to do with that block of numbers in the corner and the street address. It’s always more than exciting [not] to hold one of those thin sheafs of compressed paper that seem to weigh less than a breath in hand. [...]