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Remembering Great Melbourne TV Dramas

Yvonne Aoll·April 3, 2022

Remembering Great Melbourne TV Dramas written by: Yvonne Aoll “WINNERS & LOSERS,” “OFFSPRING,” “HOUSE HUSBANDS,” “SISTERS” Over...

Article English

·3 mins read

Under The Milky Way

Sean O'Leary·March 31, 2022

Under The Milky Way written by: Sean O’Leary @SeanOl777 I’m driving down Smith St, Collingwood. Not sure...

Touching Base

Sean O'Leary·January 5, 2022

Touching Base written by: Sean O’Leary @SeanOl777 I met an Aboriginal guy in Kings Cross. I’d just...

English Literature

·6 mins read

The Past

Sean O'Leary·April 21, 2021

The Past written by: Sean O’Leary @SeanOl777 “He keeps looking over here, that guy in the Bluey...

English Literature

·10 mins read

I was born and raised in Yorkshire, England. At fifteen I left school without the skills or maturity to appreciate the wider world. At nineteen I packed a bag and wandered through Europe and North Africa, learning from the road. At twenty‑five I earned the qualifications for university, eventually becoming a high school teacher and later an education manager. Now I live with my amazing wife on an island north of Seattle. After retiring and with encouragement from Spillwords and the Clever Park Writers Group, I traded reports for storytelling. And that's where the fiction began...

Cast Off by Niall Crowley

The two computer screens tighten their grip. Tom pivots between them, tracking one while he works on the other. Careful discipline from early morning to close of business. Number crunching, he would have termed it before. Now it’s data management and verification, his task to model and tabulate clients’ financial situations and options. Bookkeeping, he would admit to, in more candid moments. He’s tethered firmly to the task, though, and has been since he started here, nearly two years now. Bound in the rigour the work requires, as if life itself depends on it. Top floor, dormer window ...

Features

Richard, Do You Remember?

Wardle Stuebner and the School Ma’am

An Unexpected Connection

Interviews

Spotlight On Writers – Kellasandra Ferrara

Spotlight On Writers – Pramod Rastogi

Interview Q&A With Jim Wilson-Storey

Wardle Stuebner and the School Ma’am

I Am Not Superstitious

Richard, Do You Remember?

Steven Wilson’s Fourth Melbourne Show

Francis Sullivan

Patchwork History

Lying in a Straight Line

Cigarettes

Melbourne

Remembering Great Melbourne TV Dramas

Touching Base

The Past

An Unexpected Connection

The Wheels on the Bus

Before The Final March

Lost Dreams

Wardle Stuebner and the School Ma’am

Arched Smile

Richard, Do You Remember?

An Emotional Blanket

The Race

Borrowed Time

Postage Slime

Apostroph