Tag: Fiction
I FOUGHT A WAR FOR YOU
The trumpets that break the dawn
A fanfare to the dying and unborn
Passion replaced by duty
Love replaced by fear
And the ticking of the clock
Says “Young...
THAT’S HOW IT ENDS
She died in my arms
Not a word was said
In silence we rose
And got out of our bed
Her eyes would flash
I knew them too well
Every...
THIS PRISON HAS NO BARS
From the mansions of sadness
To the bums on the street
From the highways of loneliness
To the halls of defeat
I’ve watched your ascendance
The road I never...
LANEWAY DREAMING
23rd September 1910
LEON sat at The Royal Mail Hotel on Bay Street in Port Melbourne, his stool pressed against the bar and both hands...
Should authors Americanize their fiction?
I am a British-Australian author with nine novels under my belt to date. All of my fiction has been set in either the Canary...
LIFE-AND-DEATH DRAMA IN A VIETNAMESE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT…
“C’mon Harry, one last big effort and you’re over the top and we’re both free!” (Oops, wrong side – that’s the bucket of cockle shells...