Dips O’Donnell’s piece, first published in 2015, captures the essence of a kid’s summer. It is now included in ‘Jolly Nuisance’, an anthology of Dips’s writings.
Pool Sunset
March 16, 2012 by 3 Comments
Words and picture by Martin Reeves “As he emerged from the water, the swimmer’s lane-rage of moments ago dissipated as he glimpsed the setting sun over Fitzroy”.
The Bomb
January 6, 2012 by 13 Comments
Broken Creek in Numurkah, Northern Victoria, was where I learned to swim. Graduating from the fenced-in concrete-bottomed beginners pool, Dad took me into the deep where the bottom was unfathomable, for a five year old, and promised to look after me, but kept moving further away, forcing me to continue my stroke to just stay […]
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