Once a jolly swagman fell for the lovely Matilda. None was fairer than Matilda. Her father ran two thousand head of sheep. There wasn’t a single stockman or shearer in all of the territory who didn’t want to waltz Matilda…
The Kingdom of the Cats
Her eyes were of gold, of gold, of gold And she was most old, most old Lucas was the first to leave. In her hut at the village edge, Old Ana stirred her midnight brew and watched him stumble past,…
Hyena Woman
My people have always hunted the banks of the Happy River. Since the Before Times we have pitched our tents between the deep rushes at the water’s edge. The tall yellow grasses hid the ones we hunted. We wore their…
The Smallest Boxes
They took the thing we did and put it into a series of smallish boxes, which they then handed around to everyone in the hemisphere, along with a cheap cotton tote bag filled with attractive brochures. The thing we did…
Trev at Ivinghoe
Trev couldn’t help this feeling of exuberance as he walked round in a circle with the rest of the group on that night of nights. The 20th of December. The last night there would ever be. A minute later and…
Speaking in Tongues
When he gets home, he slides you into a goldfish bowl. You think there’s no way you can fit, what with the tail and fronds, but the water accommodates like a glove. Morning and evening, he shakes a plastic tub….
