
I’d probably floor it if a big long-haired bloke stepped out of the darkness and into my headlights on a stretch of empty road at…

I felt a surge of magnetism from the rock as soon as I pulled into the national park in my dust-encrusted van. I’d just taken…

My eyes are blurry from the tears and I’m squirming in my seat. My nose is a faucet under my facemask. I’m struggling to control…

It’s 9pm on a Saturday. Joel and I sit on the couch in the shared common room of a North Queensland hostel. I tilt my…

I woke up on the 1st of January this year in a double bed spooning two of my friends in their dad’s apartment in a…

“I need to buy some bin bags to shit in or there’ll be an explosion in the night,” said my fiancé of one month, roughly…

When I arrived at his dilapidated treehouse, I complimented Michael on the taxidermy snake he had draped on his kitchen window sill. I found comfort…

It was the eve of my 30th birthday: a painfully gorgeous afternoon in the south-east of Tasmania. A handful of friends and I were basking…

Hints of sweet honeysuckle and mint. Crisp forest dew and pine bark, damp. Soft touches of wood-like nectar circle the air, subtly paired with a…

Young families are plentiful. Kids play on bikes and tradies dash about. Seemingly everybody has a dog. The area is much like a maze, but…

“Farkkk. Well, there go our winter holiday plans.” As Gladys announced the NSW-Victorian border closure, I felt my heart sink. It wasn’t unexpected, just another…