Where I take a paragraph and examine it in whatever way takes my fancy. Today, I’m taking a look at a paragraph from a piece called ‘One Plot, At Most’ by Jane Rawson. It was published in Overland Issue 230 Autumn 2018. An Australian short story is short. That is ...

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This is a small book, only 104 pages. Margo Lanagan’s writing is so good that the length of the book is totally irrelevant. The stories in this book are well selected with an eye towards saying so much so concisely. Although, when I say ‘selected’, that might be a misnomer ...

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I was very proud to be gifted this by Susan May herself, very proud, I love a good short story and what I didn’t realise was just how good these short stories would be. There are just six in here and each one has a catch I wasn’t really expecting. I ...

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This book is full of stories authored by Australian mastercraftspeople. They get their ideas from vastly differing places and take them to different ends but each one is perfectly crafted. Many of them seamlessly meld western stories with dream time stories to make a wonderful new story idea and a ...

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Many, many moons ago, when I was much younger than the age I profess to be, my family were having a conversation about the shortest story in the world. Now I’m not able to comment on the validity of this but the shortest story we came up with was “And ...

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As you might know from a previous post I have a lot of Agatha Christie books, I’m really only missing three titles of short stories and The Mousetrap. So it’s a very exciting time when I find a book I don’t have. My other half took me away for a ...

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Agatha Christie. This is an interesting one. Originally my sister was collecting them. She moved countries when she got married and sold them to me. I continued collecting them and now have almost all of them. The only ones I’m missing are the plays and short stories. My kids have ...

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