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Submitted to Contest #324
“That’s what they used to call a wine bottle,” the old man says, handing me the bottle of water. He’s huddled on the stern seat, all elbows and knees – like the dead coral on the beach, chalky limbs jutting this way and that. “I know, Gramps. You told me,” I say, furling the skiff’s patchwork sail and slipping the anchor into the sea, calm and dark blue in the early morning light. “And wine was made from things called grapes, and grapes were food, but back then we had so much of everything in Oz, they would squash the grapes and drink the ju...
Submitted to Contest #239
It’s funny, the noises the road makes. The growl of the tarmac made sticky by the midday Western Australian sun. The red-dirt wind whipping off the endless Nullarbor desert, rocking my little 1973 Ford Escort, whistling through the passenger window that doesn’t quite close. Wwwwwwwwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssshhhhhhiiiisssshhhiiissshhh. Buffeting the rusty wheel arches and tugging at the steering wheel. The front wheel catches the soft shoulder. Buluddudduddudd. I’ve never really noticed the way the road speaks to you before. Usual...
Submitted to Contest #230
Subject: Your 13th Birthday Mixtape! Scheduled to send: 00.01 Saturday 30 December, 2023 *** Happy birthday, Sammy! 13! A teenager! So, it’s another one of my birthday emails. I hope you don’t mind them. I wish I could be there with you, but this is the best I can do. I can (just) remember what it felt like to be 13. It can be tough. Confusing. But it can (and should) also be the best time. A time to make friends. To try new things. Try it all! Give everything a go! Have fun! You’ll be an adult with a job, a credit card, a mortgage and b...
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