A winter edition of Microfiction Mondays will commence on Monday 1 June. We have already recieved some fantastic micro stories, and we've only just announced it, so we're looking forward to bringing you a banger first edition on the first day of winter! Everyone seems to
Martin Smith
Martin Smith
Martin's new serial – Hare, There and Everywhere – premieres on Geelong Cereal tomorrow (Sunday 24 May). Keep your eyes peeled! Martin Smith is an Australian author—a humorist, of sorts—of short fiction. He lives and writes in a beach house at the tip of the Bellarine Peninsula. When
Mel King
Happy Saturday, Cereal readers and contributors! I have a couple of exciting new writing initiatives to outline for you this morning. I hope they tickle your collective fancy. The trouble with serials. I first heard about Geelong Cereal right before it launched – I was complaining to a local writer that
Steve Gray
by Steve Gray Chapter one The air inside Sally's Bookstore was not merely still; it was deeply sedimented, a fragrant blend of aged paper, desiccated cedar, and the subtle, sharp tang of binding glue. Sunlight, filtered through the small, square-paned windows facing the cobbled side alley, fracturing
Mel King
Magical realism, horror. CW- violence, abuse, language
Kristine Fitzgerald
By Kristine Fitzgerald Have you read the previous chapters yet? For the first time since Fletcher had returned to this world, he felt he could now really do some exploring of his own. He was in his place—his place that he had created—and even though he might not
Denise Main & Ian Chisholm
by Denise Main Ian Chisholm Have you read the previous chapter yet? The storm hit. It was not long after they bade each other good night, though expecting winter’s chill to creep into their thin sleeping bags with them. A mean blast of icy rain laden wind barrelled in
J.S. Harman
I'm J.S. Harman (also go by JSH online!) a social worker turned author who writes spooky sci-fi adventures, with intentions of adding fantasy to the catalogue. On the surface, my work tackles many classic science fiction themes, such as existentialism, evolution, and our place in the
Brett J Cole
by Brett J Cole ‘The sad stillness of a caterpillar slowly crawling over sand.’ He lifted his head, chewing on his toast as he stared at her. His expression wasn’t much to speak of and it could have shown many things. Bewilderment, confusion, apathy, despondence… When she stared back
Brett J Cole
Brett J Cole is a Geelong West based writer of both children’s books and adult fiction. Along with poetry, prose, musings and art, he also sometimes writes a weird hybrid of writing and skit-humour that he calls “Skiterature”, which are short pieces often very much formed around wordplay.
Steve Gray
by Steve Gray He could sit for hours, though the hours often bled into days, measured only by the shifting weight of the sun across the room and floorboards. He’d sit and wait, a quiet observer wallowing in the honeyed gentleness of the light. Outside the glass, a riot