Dirk could feel himself struggling, his eyes trying to force themselves shut, the body desperate to recharge. He couldn’t let it. Not until he got home. And yet, despite his exhaustion, he simply wasn’t ready to let go yet. Through the thick fog of tiredness, Dirk searched for a solution. Eventually, he found it. It …
A man with curly blond hair slammed down a box of files down on his desk, jolting the brunette beside him awake. “I cannot believe I have been assigned to the Sandringham relocation. This is outrageous. It’s unfair. All because our boss has it out for me! It’s ridiculous!” Groggily, the woman sat up and …
This is the story of a man named Harvey. Harvey worked a somewhat exciting job down on the Mornington Peninsula, renting shacks down by the beaches of Dromana. No two days were the same for Harvey, but there was a common thread across all of them. You see, ever since Harvey opened his beach shack …
So I’ve chosen the seeds that I want for my garden. I’ve gone a bit rouge compared to my last blog post and decided to buy seeds that weren’t even on my radar before this. It was a spontaneous last-minute decision – one that I made at the checkout because I panicked. What did I …
My feet hammered against the hillside as I sprinted away from the crumbling temple behind me, the hollering of Crowley’s men echoing closer and closer as they quickly realised I’d made it out of their trap alive. ‘Start the plane!’ I shouted at the top of my lungs to Raul, my pilot, sitting casually in …
From about year ten onwards, I knew that I wanted to work in video production. I had always been fascinated by television and movies. I remember watching the movie about the boy who was a wizard when I was really young, maybe seven years old, and I thought that every time we turned on the …
My wife and I are about to buy a new house. We’ve spent months looking to see what’s available in our area and within our budget, and it turns out that there were a lot of really good options on the housing market. We ultimately decided on one that is a very modern townhouse that …
This week I went to see the people who are building my boat. They are all very nice and professional, and they don’t treat me differently because I’m a young person. They understand my ambition to become a sailor and are interested in helping me do that. I didn’t tell them about my quest to …
Two hours later, Iris found herself outside Balustrades for You, the most popular balustrade business in New Melbourne. She stood at the door for a time, invisible once again, waiting for somebody to enter the building. It wasn’t long before a customer opened the door and Iris was able to slip in beside them. She …
Reginald relaxed into bed after a hard day at work, his belly full of the cheese and seed biscuits that he had made earlier. He had spent his evening regaling the day’s tales to his wife, who had many stories of her own to tell. She worked on the surface, which was a place that …