Category Archives: Literature

A fraction too much fiction continued

November 18, 2006 – 1:05 pm

Chapter One is here
The Family Services officer came to the Spiteris’, came striding down their street of Housing Commission butterboxes on stilts. Sixteen, she told Mr Spiteri, was legally old enough to leave home. Mr Spiteri called her a diseased convict dick. She stared calmly ahead, clipboard secure under one arm. She smiled sweetly. Donna [...]

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There’s a fraction too much fiction

November 17, 2006 – 10:43 pm

Come from jaded lands to us, come from the sullen gloom,
To sunny soils and cities sweet, to Love and Liberty!
Bernard O’Dowd, The Southern Call, 1913
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‘I have to stop again, Irene,’ Donna says, tapping her on the shoulder. Irene Neils is driving, with her friend Donna Spiteri beside her. Donna is suddenly pale and she clutches [...]

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Holes

October 26, 2006 – 8:29 pm

A few weeks ago on local Rocky commercial telly, my nephew told me about an odd film he’d seen while I was away on circuit. This is a kid who never pauses to read anything - he’s far more interested in gaming and technology. Books are just so passe. ‘I want to read it’, he [...]

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Repost: A cultural issue with economic consequences

October 20, 2006 – 2:38 pm

This was my first piece for Catallaxy, and for that reason alone I’m rather attached to it. It too went the way of the blue suede shoe when our server died. It originally ran on August 29. Feel free to start stoushing once more.
While in Melbourne last week, I spent a fair bit of time [...]

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Joe Cinque’s Consolation

September 15, 2006 – 3:21 pm

I have just read Joe Cinque’s Consolation by Helen Garner. It is a very interesting insight into a criminal trial, and how a layperson perceives the process of a trial. The book focuses on the impact of the trial on the victim’s parents, with whom the author gradually builds a friendship.
Garner gets drawn into watching [...]

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