After the shower has ceased a punishing round of heated droplets and the towel has rubbed me down like sandpaper. After I have stepped on the scales and witnessed the dial spin closer to my target weight and I step off and it springs back with a noisy reset mechanism. Yes after all that sometimes [...]

Like a real estate development or easter island staues lined up waiting to receive more orders, more customers, sitting there with their fingers in their ears an unanswered question, premium or standard unleaded they seem to be asking. The rubber handle – oversized – is picked up and fitted into the funnel and the car [...]

Hanging in the sky like an eye lash or an eyebrow, a smile turned sideways smiling at the sun during the day or lilting toward Mars at night, keeping pace with Venus through the night sky, trying to outdo its brilliance. It smiles its way across the sky, giving a hint of the fullness to [...]

Banners and placards floated along the street winding up at the Fitzroy gardens, a clash of newly seasoned grass and a Mediterranean blue sky met somewhere near the stage. An overhang of tree branches seemed unimpressed and had their arms crossed – waiting to be convinced. The marchers were almost all assembled, a salt and [...]

Hum, it’s all around us an underlying drone of faithful hum. We tune it out after a while, don’t notice. Computer fans, power lines all sorts of things – high and low and in between. The hard drive on the desk – is humming patiently, those drives are spinning away in the inner space, the [...]

Too late to make breakfast, gotta go, gotta go, go , go. Out the door down past the corner store. Drive through at McD’s for a coffee to go and an egg and bacon roll and then join the roll call of other dominoes. Blocks of ice moving on a glacier of road at no [...]

He knew the right eye was OK, but the left- well it had ‘gone’ a long time ago. He had to make it through this for the training to continue – his employer had shelled out a cool $750 to put him on the course. His hand covered his left eye in a star trek [...]

The jaws of a billion billion cash registers open every day and those black square dish teeth gnash upon our hard earned salary. It’s like they’re gobbling up the pie we can’t get enough of, the piece that always screams more, more, more. For some it’s regular, for others it’s a dream and the government [...]

Innocently you’re driving along a suburban street. You note a patrol car donned in red, blue and white and think nothing of it as you glance down to ensure you’re at the speed limit. A second later there’s a whoop from behind and blue and red psychedilics are performing behind you. A pang of icy [...]

We all stood in a naked yard, the grass beneath our bleeting feet had been worn away through wandering and scratching away every day, plotting and scheming means of escape. How to get through that bed of barbed wire. Guard towers ringed the fence every 50 metres, so going through the fence was impossible, digging [...]