Improv

Everyone has a doppelgänger…   “Who are you and what have you done with Jeff?” The wrinkled face split into a grin. “Ha, ha. You made it at least.” “I beg your pardon?” “Leave it out, Jeff. You always wear shorts and you’re a grumpy old git. What happened? Did you win Lotto and splash […]

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The Dipper

This one’s a racing driver boy meets girl story…   Another day, another signing queue. A restless gaggle of boys with autograph books. Teenage girls poised for selfies. Every frickin’ time. The pits were empty. Trent stepped out, and they appeared. Like they beamed down from Starship Enterprise. Fair enough on a race weekend, but […]

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Lois

A gorgeous teenager turns a young bloke’s world upside down. It’s going to end in tears, isn’t it?   On holiday. Ten days out from school. Headed home for a barbie at our beach shack. Content, fulfilled the way you can only be when you’re eleven, wind-burned and salty from beach-fishing. Rod in one hand, […]

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Enter Captain Blackheart

Meet Annie and a customer determined to ruin her day…   He walked into the room like an admiral piped onto the quarterdeck. You know the type, wrinkling his nose at the displays. Handsome in that Mr D’Arcy way, all chiselled cheekbones, flashing eyes and a flowing, immaculately trimmed mane as dark as his soul. […]

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Two poodles and a birthday cake

Folk often ask writers where their ideas come from….   You know how funny men cry on the inside? Mask their pain with jokes?  Well I’m blubbering on the outside. Have you heard the one about the puppy in the burger joint? No? Me neither. I could do it Seinfeld. “What is it with dogs, […]

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When you wish upon a star…

This bloke needs all the help he can get… The heavens are on fire, a million, no, a billion milky pin pricks jammed so close there’s hardly room for dark. A three-sixty-degree blanket of stars. Who knew there were so many? The sky’s clearer in the desert. It’s so flat. Silent but for the mozzie […]

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Secret Santa

Gary Hollins goes undercover in the big red suit. You can imagine how that turns out…   The shelves were lined with tinsel. The staff had been forced into ‘Santa’s Coming!’ tee-shirts and antler-horn headbands, but nothing said seven days to Christmas at Bell’s Landing Buy’n’Save like the monstrosity jammed into the middle of the […]

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