The late bushranger, Ned Kelly, has a lingering presence in my life, and my flash fiction, Fifteen, Taken Unawares was already in draft when Matt Potter, editor of Pure Slush, ...

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Image credit: Ned Kelly in 1871 while in custody at Kyneton, arrested for associating with bushranger Harry Power and charged with armed robbery. (Source: National Museum of Australia)

Kirstie McKinnon /street art pic of Ru

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What’s your favourite story from childhood? Can it ever be spoiled?

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Title: Spoiler Alert: One Thousand and One Nights.

The Last Time, my flash fiction about sheep-farming and life .....

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Two dads, a baby, one wannabe-Janis hippychick ...

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Lady on a Train about the suffragette Emily Davidson

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Warning: story may feature a taniwha ....

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Funny Ugly Little Baby

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