Short Stories

From What Came Between

‘The Ground Beneath’

(As ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’)

Harvest, Issue Two, 2008


‘And?’

ABC Radio National (25/05/08)

ABC Radio National (30/04/06)

The Sleepers’ Almanac 2006, Sleepers Publishing

The Best Australian Stories 2005, Black Inc.


‘Mauve’

The Best Australian Stories 2005, Black Inc.


‘Dust’

The Best Australian Stories: Ten Year Collection, Black Inc., 2011

The Best Australian Stories 2006, Black Inc.


‘The Easy Way Out’

ABC Radio National (23/11/08)

Sleepers Almanac 2007: The Family Affair

The Best Australian Stories 2007, Black Inc.


‘Scar Tissue’

(And an earlier, shorter story ‘Collapsing Under Their Own Weight’ embedded in ‘Scar Tissue’)

Sleepers Almanac No. 4, 2008 (‘Scar Tissue’)

ABC Radio National (21/08/11) (‘Collapsing Under Their Own Weight’)

ABC Radio National (04/10/09) (‘Collapsing Under Their Own Weight’)

Encounters, Five Mile Press, 2006 (‘Collapsing Under Their Own Weight’)

The Best Australian Stories 2005, Black Inc. (‘Collapsing Under Their Own Weight’)


From Untold Stories

(An unpublished collection)

‘Cheever’s Unreliable Narrator’

Review of Australian Fiction, 158 Volume 23, Issue 4 (2017)


‘Hemingway’s Unfaithful Wife’

Review of Australian Fiction, 027 Volume 4, Issue 6 (2012)


‘Carver’s Unmade Bed’

Kill Your Darlings, Issue 5 – April 2011


‘Carver’s Unkempt Lawn’

Kill Your Darlings, Issue 1 – March 2010


‘Kieslowski’s Unlikely Comedy’

Sleepers Almanac No.5, 2009


From Uncollected Stories

‘The Point of the Afternoon’

Finalist in Newcastle Herald Short Story Competition 2023.

Newcastle Herald, Monday 26th December 2022.

https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/8030222/short-stories-2023-the-point-of-the-afternoon/


‘The Bath’

(An extract from an unpublished novel)

Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2019, Hunter Writers Centre


‘The Weight of Affairs’

(An extract from an unpublished novel)

Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2017, Hunter Writers Centre


‘The Edit’

Lish rang to talk about revisions, but Carver was not home, so he just left a message: “I’ve had my way with it.”

Twitter, 27 Feb 2014


‘After the Funeral’

SWAMP, May no.10, 2012


‘How My Father Dies In The End’

ABC Radio National (27/11/11)

New Australian Stories 2, Scribe, 2010


‘How to Read a Short Story: A 12-Step Program’

Wet Ink, Issue 20, September 2010


‘Peeling’

Newcastle Herald, Thursday 15th January 2009


‘The Space Between Them’

People of the Valley, Catchfire Press, 2009


‘The Corkscrew’

New Australian Stories, Scribe, 2009

Etchings 4 – The Art of Conversation, 2008


‘The Wheelbarrow’

ABC Radio National (14/12/08)

ABC Radio National (11/02/07)

Behind the Front FenceFive Mile Press, 2004

Newcastle Herald Weekender, 31st January 2004

The Age, 10th January 2004


‘The Termites’

Skive, Issue No.2, December 2003