We spent our last night in a hotel room opposite Kings Cross listening to Banks and doing crosswords and having crazy fucking good sex and…
The holy river was choked with garbage. Mounds of single-use cups and plastic bags swam alongside shimmering gold fabric and clumps of human hair. On…
“Tomorrow,” the bus driver said sheepishly, sympathetically. I’d asked for directions to the ferry terminal. “But the saleswoman at the bus station said I’d reach…
There’s nothing quite so amusing as watching the zealous foodie produce #foodporn. When the meal arrives – some raw phenomenon, an artful smear – he cracks…
“Do you realise how unethical your family is?” a new colleague sneered as I was in my sixth hour of pouring beers for overly drunk…
I noticed it when I was in kindergarten, when the Christmas concert would come around and the entire class tried on matching outfits for the…
On Monday this week – which, incidentally, was World Harmony Day – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that the government would be introducing changes to…
“We’ve caught you on tape committing theft. We have to terminate your employment”. Fuck. Confronted and alone, my guilt-stricken body trembled as I pondered which…
The drag queens moved through a mixed crowd in Seminyak’s Bali Joe, leaving a trail of excitement and animation. They caught the hands of their…
The charming sentence that titles this piece first came to my attention in the sunny year of ’06, when The Chaser took to the streets…
Rough, bony hands grazed over my bum as they slithered their way to my stomach. They tightened around me, pulling me back against his body….
Pt. I You are bleary eyed, stiff and ready to be home. Your flight has just landed in Frankfurt and you have to catch a…
