LIVE BAIT
February 11, 2021I hadn’t seen McLeay since soldiering days, and there he was. Sat at a desk under the house where, in a manner both businesslike yet…
Zizzy Stories and Blogs
MOONSHOT
June 23, 2020Professor Charma Toukley watched the Earth swim into view. The planet slipped across the huge round skylight, as if the circular window itself was an…
A STRING OF PEARLS
May 12, 2020A STRING OF PEARLS “That was ten years ago,” Frances Corry said. DI Fyfe looked at her, but with eyes half shut – as…
SING-SONG
March 23, 2020The Minister sticks his head round the door, looks at Sam who taps diligent words into a record of minutes. “Sam, I need you!” the…
WHY THE CAPRICORN SKY?
January 30, 2020Marko and his weird cliff-face house appeared in 2012 at the tail end of a dream about Townsville, where I grew up. During Xmas 1971,…
THE SIGH
January 25, 2020June fog shrouded the national Parliament – a huge birdnet of fog – draped over the isoscelean flagpole, the sloping roof-lawns. Thick still, at 11am.