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It’s a warm Summer Friday evening and the full moon is rising above me.Tonight, I am part of a small community of people all over the country who aresitting on the edge of various mosquito infested swamps, listening intently forthe mating call of one of Australia’s most endangered birds.Yes, we could be at the pub.Continue reading “Swamp serenade: Berry wetland a safe haven for endangered Australasian Bittern”

A brood of oiled and sun-shaded writers stretch out on striped beach chairs, pretending to relax after their morning workshop.  Each holds a book, but their eyes wander. They are still caught in the teeth of their own stories. They peer over the top of their books, across the combed sand strip to where theContinue reading “Flash fiction: Sunlight Soap”

Stories live here. They start off shuttered inside cabins, but make their way out, sitting down at the dinner table, exhaling along verandahs, drifting out into the night garden. We come here, propelled by our own story and drawn to the stories of others. Words are untangled, in the night over glasses of wine, inContinue reading “The night shift”