"I got nothin' man." Andy replies, speaking on Skype to his friend Frank in Rock Hampton. "What dyu mean, nothing, man you're in New York, for Christ's sake, there's gotta be umpteen stories out there". ...Andy met Frank at school and became good… more »

"Hey what's the difference between New York and Sydney?" Allen came out with it out of nowhere. I looked at him suspiciously and shook my head and kept walking. Was it one of those stupid 60's laugh-in jokes coming back into vogue like so many other thin… more »

I read in the weekend paper sometime back that every event had been declared a work of Art; a story, a show, a picture to be written, an act to be performed, to be displayed in such a way so as to make the creator seem clever and agile. Art, they asser… more »

Most folks have, at one time or another, thought that they caught sight of someone out of the corner of their eye when they entered a room they expected to be vacant, or empty and which, in fact, was. Some have continued to feel that presence long after… more »

I'd been there 8 days and 7 nights and I hadn't yet acclimatised myself to the feel of the town. I didn't really want to either, but seeing as I was holed up there for another few days or so waiting for the dust to settle I figured maybe I should. I wa… more »