My younger brother Al was always the black sheep of the family; always in trouble with our parents, the school, the law and anyone else in authority. As kids, he and I were always fighting – not just arguing, but… Read More ›
My Story
The Story of My Life Part 5: Down and Out in Sydney and Melbourne
Sydney, Australia in mid-summer: paradise for someone young, single and out for a good time! Or at least if not paradise, the nearest I’d ever come to it. I’d stretched my relationship with a friend of a friend to put… Read More ›
The Story of My Life Part 4: Flight of Fancy
The latter days of my schooling and the greater part of the university years that followed are something of a blur, the way that details of periods of extended boredom and mediocrity are a blur. When I was about sixteen,… Read More ›
The Story of My Life Part 3: Rude awakenings
Early in my adolescence a phenomenon occurred that affected most of the members of my cohort simultaneously: the sudden awareness that females were different, and there was something interesting about them. I wasn’t sure what it was, but whatever it… Read More ›
The Story of My Life Part 2: Almost a burial
Risks were a part of everyday life for kids in our kind of environment; but we learned early how to assess them, and most of us got through the early part of our childhood with nothing more than a few… Read More ›
Welcome
I want to tell you a story. It’s my story. It began a long time ago, longer ago than I can remember. It goes back to the roots of myself, to the heroes and heroines of my family’s collective memory. You’ll… Read More ›
The Story of My Life Part 1: Fire Damage
A friend of mine said to me not so long ago, after we’d been reflecting on things we’d done throughout our lives, that my history would make interesting reading. I don’t know about that; all I can do is put… Read More ›
The Man on the Moon – Part 3
In the days following Grimes’ death, Harvey trawled through the events of the previous couple of weeks, trying to work out his best option. The official explanation for the plane crash was that it was due to a ‘technical failure’;… Read More ›
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