Reading has been something I’ve escaped to since childhood. My parents would read to me every night and together we adventured through different worlds, went to far off places, discovered new sights and sounds, all through the pages of my books. I’ve been hooked ever since I could read my first word and there’s no sign of me slowing down anytime soon. As...
I think that the short story is a hard craft to master. I’ve read some truly awful short stories, finished some collections and then asked myself why I put myself through the last 200+ pages, found stories with so many plot holes and missing pieces that they didn’t even form a cohesive story. To write a short story is to write something that...
I love crime dramas. When I lived in Japan, we received two Australian TV channels. One was Channel 7, rerouted through Papua New Guinea, so the programs were only half familiar to us, the ads peppered with people recommending betel nut leaf to us, smiling with red-stained teeth. The other channel was ABC, my parents’ favourite, and it soon became mine, too, Disney...
