I was prepared for one of them to die. Before I left the UK to go travelling, I made a list of family members I…
Buenaventura Bravo’s main job during the Spanish Civil War was getting his goats out of the village and into the mountains. This was no top-secret…
My previous portero died unexpectedly. One day he was there – a fat and jovial man, bald, glasses, head pushed a little forward giving way…
Shivering in the cold, I hopped onto the mountain bike, awaiting the go-ahead to start the 3700-metre descent. I gripped the handlebars, my white knuckles…
I enter the hospital room and my body freezes. Before me stands a lifeless room full of clinical white light. Death lingers in the fringes,…
The reactions are diverse when you tell someone you’ve decapitated a live chicken in Vietnam: I’ve been laughed at for my inept bravery, labelled as…
“I hope you’ll all be saying a prayer, and I’ll say one too. Let’s hope we land safely.” The intercom clicked off. * On the…
All I want to do is see him, hug him, tell him a funny joke. As I curl my fingers around the yellow rose I…
France is a cold, proud place. In winter, the snow is brittle and grimy, white like bone. And the people seem equally cold-blooded. They walk…
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…
When I replay the memory of the moment I found out Dad had died, it’s like a film, sped-up, where I’m the lead character and…
I’m 24 and I don’t have a boyfriend. In the small country town where I’m from – Bendigo – this makes me a minority. Every…
