Scorpio Dream one: October twenty-five.   Isobel leans forward in the doctor’s waiting room where patients are illuminated by light from the window. Because she’s a pessimist, she believes she must have cancer, it’s the only thing it could be. She dwells on this. Isobel Yates? At the sound of ... READ MORE

My mother once hid a boy in our shed to save him from a beating. Fred Jones, his old man, arrived at our place after his son, breathless, red and beery. He loomed at our side gate like a beast quivering with the scent of prey. We had no trees ... READ MORE

(This is the second in a series of short stories about the lives of girls and women)   Kylie Anderson tried to be good. It was who she was. That and being the first of seven kids. When her father died, she worked after school to help her mother with ... READ MORE

This is the story of cousins Ada and Heather deciding on their futures by making mistakes, like most of us do. Things become other than we imagined.  Futures rest around us like mist and change is aways there. The girls have entered the drunken state when everything is funny. Things ... READ MORE