Beryl Stott
By Beryl Stott The white coated figure moved towards her. It seemed as if he was walking in slow motion. There had been no news for hours and now Gabe Fuller, head of the whole Futureassured project had obviously been called in. This was not a good sign. It suddenly
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Fletcher the kangaroo: life and death
Kristine Fitzgerald
By Kristine Fitzgerald The afternoon sun formed long shadows as it slowly lost altitude in the western sky. The rain from earlier in the day had cleared but it left a coating of moisture on the ground. Fletcher didn’t mind. He hopped happily down the hill, past the rocks
Melissa King
By Melissa King Cerisse pressed her hands over her ears as the first alarm of the day echoed through the station, the shrieking ghost of a Stuka Siren almost three centuries since the last one was decommissioned. 494 hz rose to 587 hz and fell again; dirty, low frequencies that
Edward Reilly
By Edward Reilly Adelaide: July 2059 Schoolmasters usually have quiet lives. Some will stand out from the crowd, gain a degree of local fame, or notoriety, some making the transition to technical college or even the ivory towers, but most go unnoticed. But the dead teacher propped up against the
Adam Stone
By Adam Stone ‘Hand me the right-handed hammer, will ya Josh?’ Josh hesitates over the toolbox for just a moment, barely long enough to say for sure that he actually considered right versus left-handed hammers. But still, long enough that his boss, Glenn and his chippy guffaw like
Steve Gray
Steve Gray
By Steve Gray I’m ‘up country’ as they say, every two to three weeks I drive to a place we have on the edge of a country town, Keroona, it’s our retreat from the city. Up country, well in Australia that would be more of a thing people
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