I am standing in the back garden of the old family home. I am surrounded by mum’s hens. The hens are doing what hens normally do. There are also dozens of my dreams swarming around my head, like buzzing bees, and I am feeling lost and bewildered. Penny arrives and…
I am a woman. In front of me is a blackboard with some equations and fractions written on it. I have to solve them and then I will have a better understanding of life. An elderly woman is helping me. One of the fractions, that I can remember, is 15/8.…
I am driving through rural NSW in my Mercedes, alone. I am going to visit my mate, Gary at his home in Boorowa. I am driving through a small country town looking for a turn-off. I find it and turn into it and drive along it. But at the other…
I am walking down Military Road in Neutral Bay. I meet Dixie, who is a friend of Penny’s. I ask her where is she going? She tells me she is off to see the minister. I ask her does she mean a minister of religion? (Dixie is very religious) No,…
I am struggling writing my novel “The Nudist and the Hippopotamus”. I am trying to find the right voice to write the novel. I decide to try a comic voice. The story now flows. In the story I describe how my character is walking through the small sub-tropical rain forest…