Six o’clock. Greeting her in the dim light, the mirror on the far wall can only fit a proportionate view of her features. It is…
This year, I cast aside the dirt-encrusted vouchers for disappointment and bought the VIP Backstage Experience for the United States 2020. In late August, I…
It was the night before the Thai new year festival of Songkran, and we were spending it in the luggage hold of a bus. We…
“Tell me something I don’t know,” she said. We were drinking champagne from the bottle, wearing only bathrobes in the suite of a 19th-century estate…
“I don’t want to do this job for that long. I don’t want to do it now if I’m honest. Who wants to sit around…
Cozmoz arrived with his usual perky walk, wearing flip flops that belonged to two different pairs and red plastic shades lifted over his head. He…
Nothing symbolises Western society – particularly, its notion of time as a commodity for sale – better than the taxi driver’s meter. As a child,…
I’m going to be a boxer. I walk to town and ask my tailor to make me a baby blue bathrobe with a hood. This…
Ten years ago, I lived on an island off the coast of Honduras. It was summer when I was there. It was summer almost all…
The idea of getting stuck in another country terrifies me. Not so much the being overseas bit, but because it brings up memories of me…
I washed my hands 10 times, then 10 times more. It felt like the blood wouldn’t come off. WHAT THE FUCK? screamed my mind on repeat….
What’s the most quintessential injury an Aussie can get in Bali? A scooter accident. Okay, what’s the second most? Animal Bite. What’s the third—actually, forget…
