Opinionated, history lover, foster mum, story teller, writer
Boxer is a story that I wrote a few months back for a short story competition. It is very loosely based on Esperance's settlement, and a short snippet of a story that I'd heard, about how Boxer Island got its name. Boxer sat on the damp sand, waiting. He watched as the towering waves grew, … Continue reading Boxer
Bill the Goose is a short story very loosely based on the life of William Shortland, an army veteran who was known as Bill the Goose. I came across William's story while researching the ANZACs from Esperance for a short history piece I was writing, which you can find here. This story, of course, is a … Continue reading Bill the Goose
Furious Fiction is a fun little writing competition run by the Australian Writers’ Center each month. The brief is posted on the first weekend of each month, then you have 55 hours to submit a story of a maximum of 500 words. (See their website, https://www.writerscentre.com.au/furious-fiction/ if you’d like to have a go yourself.) This was … Continue reading The Elephant in the Room
Furious Fiction is a fun little writing competition run by the Australian Writers’ Center each month. The brief is posted on the first weekend of each month, then you have 55 hours to submit a story of a maximum of 500 words. (See their website, https://www.writerscentre.com.au/furious-fiction/ if you’d like to have a go yourself.) This was … Continue reading Music
