In this week’s episode, Swifty meets Laura for dinner, and reflects on their former relationship
Almanac (Cricket) Satire: Viv on Mick ballsing up things to do with his weight
Viv Tufnell returns. In this installment our hero finds himself without an easy avenue into the Ashes side due to some ‘heavy’ issues…
Almanac Short Fiction: ‘A Pest Exterminator’s Tale’
KD describes ‘A Pest Exterminator’s tale’ as “a short story originally drafted a couple of decades ago and worked upon here and there ever since. It’s about many issues, including phobias, and has echoes of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. The environment is very much Geelong’s waterfront of decades ago, when it was still seedy and run-down and just starting to undergo the process of gentrification and renewal.”
Almanac Short Fiction: ‘Brian and His Mum’
Brian was more like a frill-necked lizard than your average teenager … he was also close to his Mum. Kevin Densley describes his short story, ‘Brian and His Mum’, as ‘a very fractured fable’.
Almanac Short Fiction: ‘Bostell’s Lager Man’
The opening of Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’, in which Gregor Samsa awakes from uneasy sleep to find himself transformed into a giant bug, receives an unusual twist in this short story from Kevin Densley. Is KD’s piece a strange cautionary tale? An example of ‘the Aussie surreal’? A modern Aesop’s fable with its origins in the brewery? You be the judge.
Almanac Tennis (and life): Great Wall
A quirky tennis piece from Joey A. [Nice to have you back Joey – JTH]
Almanacker in The Big Issue Fiction Issue
David Wilson (E.Regnans to you) has been chosen from 400 submissions to be one of 12 authors published in the Big Issue fiction edition. Do yourself (and the vendor) a favour and buy a copy, while its on sale to next Thursday.
Review: Mr. Cleansheets
Mr. Cleansheets Author: Adrian Deans Publisher: Vulgar Press Published 2010 Reviewed by Adam Muyt This is a lads book, a ‘Boys Own’ adventure through the footballing landscape that is England. Seriously, I can see this book doing well in the UK amongst a large slab of the football-loving populace. Not bad for an aussie author [Read more]
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