PART 1: A LONELY TRACK THE TIME Mary and I shifted out into the Bush from Gulgong to ... Read more
Australian Literature Short Stories
Total Stories: 50
NEW Year’s Eve! A hot night in midsummer in the drought. It was so darkwith a smothering darknessthat ... Read more
It was dark enough for anything in Dead Man’s Gap — a round, warm, close darkness, in which ... Read more
DAVE REGAN and partybush-fencers, tank-sinkers, rough carpenters, &c. were finishing the third and last culvert of their contract ... Read more
The new native-school teacher, who was “green”, “soft”, and poetical, and had a literary ambition, called her “August”, ... Read more
I. Dave Regans Yarn WHEN we got tired of digging about Mudgee-Budgee, and getting no gold, said Dave ... Read more
DAVE REGAN, Jim Bently, and Andy Page were sinking a shaft at Stony Creek in search of a ... Read more
Steelman and Smith had been staying at the hotel for several days in the dress and character of ... Read more
“When you’re going away by boat,” said Mitchell, “you ought to say good-bye to the women at home, ... Read more
William Spencer stayed away from school that hot day, and “went swimming”. The master wrote a note to ... Read more
They called him “Stiffner” because he used, long before, to get a living by poisoning wild dogs near ... Read more
Tall and freckled and sandy, Face of a country lout; That was the picture of Andy Middletons rouseabout. ... Read more