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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Based on an article I read in ‘Sunday life’ – original story appeared in The Telegraph U.K. I’d been living in Los Angeles since I was seven years old my daddy was a truck driver mama worked the county court when I was 11 they divorced and I started doing some bad things Pretty soon [...]

It started out quite innocent, just a trip down to the supermarket to buy an ice cream, specifically an Eskimo pie -a rectangular brick of Ice cream coated in chocolate – you can’t just buy one though, they come in a pack of six. You take home the polar blue packet and chisel out a [...]