Trust is a complex concept. This anthology features stories that revolve around ordinary topics like a school election or an unhappy marriage. It also contains stories with more imaginative topics like ghosts or an apocalypse. But, there one common thread among the 10 stories- every character struggles with trust issues. At times, they find it difficult to trust their own eyes, themselves, or even the world around them. Let the stories take you...

Los protagonistas de este libro sienten que han perdido la libertad para ordenar su propia historia dentro de otra historia que es mucho más grande que ellos mismos. La madre celosa del tiempo que su empleada de hogar pasa con sus hijos, el adolescente vigoréxico obsesionado con construir un cuerpo que lo convierta en mejor persona, el anciano judío homosexual que llora abrazado a los jerséis de su amante cuando se le rompe la lavadora… y la...

These stories are about being young, getting old, and life in between. An Australian teenage girl in 1970s country NSW waits in a wet, wintery, small New Zealand town for the arrival of her illicit lover, and the decision that will change her life, 'Mary's Story'. Three children are washed out to sea clinging to an upturned table when floods sweep away the family farmhouse in the historically based 'The Flood'. In 'Conditions Apply', an invalid and...

'This collection blends candid and personal worlds, short stories, allegories and vignettes. The warmth of "Knight in Shining Chain Mail" moves to the chilling short story "Undertow", with its secrets, to heart-rending "The Broken Windmill". Decima does not shy away from reality, with all its twists and turns of family angst, defiant love, jealousy, betrayal, blackmail and the ache of the road not taken, balanced by the humour of light-hearted stories...

Incidental Dreams from a Myoclonic Jerk is Joe Bugden's first published collection of short stories. The collection is inhabited by characters drawn from unexceptional circumstances, whose lives are touched by love and loss, by regret and remorse, and who are placed in small and domestic settings as an examination of the everyday, and as a metaphor for the universal and ubiquitous conditions of life.

This sequence of stories follows the journey of ten people across a sultry Sydney day as a storm builds. Their lives are as varied as the millions who live in this pulsing metropolis. As the storm front hits, these people are on a path to seeing their city and their world in a new way.

The sixteen short stories in Rock and Sea span an extraordinary range of mood and style. There are tales of tragedy, of mischief, of mystery and of gothic horror. “Rock and Sea” contains stories written by Jeanell Buckley over more than a decade, beginning in the late 1990s.

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Survival, desire, disaster; misadventure, murder and magic combine in this unique collection of tales set in locations including old rural Australia, present-day cities and the distant mystical past. Twenty-seven short stories from renowned Australian fiction writer and poet Julie Thorndyke will take you on tantalizing journeys in the company of artists and musicians, mothers and daughters, writers and lovers. as they make brave, desperate and audacious...

David Brelsford won the Hula Manu writing competition at the Brigham Young University Hawaii Campus in 1973. He then had a thirty-year hiatus whilst he was actively involved in the accumulation of babies and mortgages. He started writing again in the early 2000s, but still finds it hard to discipline himself to a regular timetable. He would much rather be square dancing, walking the dog or even chopping firewood!