A few weeks after arriving in Melbourne in August, 1972, I began writing a short story that would be published in The Sun-News Pictorial Short Story Competition early in the following January. I remember my embarrassment to learn later that the English word ‘togs’ that I had used in Between Two Stools meant ‘bathers’ in Australian English and not ‘old clothes’. Thenceforth I became very attentive to the Aussie idiom.
The following year my second story, Alice Safari, also made the final cut. Then in December, 1977 I was asked to contribute a piece, a shorter version of Her Natural Life, to the newspaper’s competition for January, 1978. I owe a great deal to The Sun-News Pictorial and Jim Hamilton, President of the Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers, for pushing me out into the open seas of fiction writing.
Dust In Your Eyes was one of the winners in the VFAW (Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers) Award in 1992.
The stories that I have selected were written between 1972 and 2018. They appear in reverse chronological order, with the most recently written presented at the top of Posts:
1 BETWEEN TWO STOOLS
2 ALICE SAFARI
3 BORN LOSER
4 ROADSCAPE
5 THE PLAY’S THE THING
6 THE CITYMART DERBY
7 HER NATURAL LIFE
8 CAT’S-PAW
9 RESTING PLACE
10 THE MODEL UNVEILED
11 L’OSSESSIONE
12 SOVRAN KING
13 HOMEWARD BOUND
14 THE ODD FLUTTER
15 IMMEMORIAL RUN
16 I DON’T TELL STORIES
17 HARVEST-TIME IN PROVENCE
18 VEGETABLE LOVE
19 RAKING THE ASHES
20 DUST IN YOUR EYES
21 M’CRACKEN’S GHOST
22 HER MASTER’S VOICE
23 PUSKAS
24 THE BOUNCING STONES
25 BEYOND THE GIRRAWHEEN STEPS
26 A BITTER SPACE
27 CYCLONE CORAL
28 ROAD TO KAROL BAGH
29 BRIEFED FOR BERLIN
30 A LEGEND LAUNDERED
31 WHERE THERE’S A WILL
32 THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR
33 THE SCORN OF BECKY PILBEAM
34 SNUFFLING FOR BLACK GOLD
35 TERRAIN OF THE LEXICO MAN
36 IA ORANA, TAHITI
37 ON THE VERGE OF PROSTRATION
38 BEAUTIFUL VEINS
39 FLIGHT FROM BRESLAU
40 FROM THE UNDERGROUND AND INTO THE SUN
41 AVOWED SILENCE
42 IN THE GLARE OF THE HOOGHLY
43 THE LIBERATOR ENDURES
44 SKIN HUNGER
45 TYSON'S URCHINS OF CAMBODIA
46 VILLAGE OF FADING DREAMS (1)
47 VILLAGE OF FADING DREAMS (2)
48 FIRING UP AGAIN
49 HIMALAYAN RETREAT
50 SHOWING THE FLAG
51 RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT
52 SILVERY STREAMS OF INCA STONES
53 VILLAGE OF FADING DREAMS (3)
54 THE FACESAVER
55 THAT LITTLE CAP MAKER MACHINE
56 VILLAGE OF FADING DREAMS (4)
57 HARRIER HOBBLED IN GOLD DUST
58 VILLAGE OF FADING DREAMS (5)
59 HAWKING IT UP IN CHITWAN
60 THE BITTER BREAD OF BANISHMENT (Henry Savery)
61 STELLAR CHARLIE CALLOWAY
62 FIRE ESCAPE
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