south – fire at night. story 1
an accident at night. a loss. the orphan. the police call. a departure.
Posts from the ‘Works’ Category
Nov 15
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the incalcitrant son
' I've got to take a phone-call from the school Boss on a FRIDAY to learn that all the dough I've been paying to get you to Uni to do God knows bloody what has been pissed up against the wall of the South Bondi Boardriders Club, you filthy little rotten mongrel kid! ...
I don’t come from there anymore
Scoresby has a smile that doesn’t quite reach his eyes and how these do they beam a steadfast and penetrating gaze on me as I fidget with a notebook and pencil.
surfers and their role in the decline of wealth and loss of western influence.
Miki Dora, the prophet of the eventual economic collapse of western civilisation. Read it here first.
drowning but not quite waving
These two didn’t die today as they made the side of the channel and waded onto the bar
through the hotel window, mick’s $20
Mick has long taken to the drink like a lot of Ballina men, and he likes the first one early and the lack of it has determined that he lose a little dignity in his morning routines.
brian’s resignation speech
The day's menu had not been printed and a special celebration gastronome menu used six months previously had been placed on the tables instead. Somebody had written an unthinkable blasphemy on the specials board.
you should have been here last century, bro ..
Yeah .. ! I was a surfer 50 years ago and you weren't there, or born even ..
wealth, it knows me not.
So sweat on localism, get in for your goodly share, there’s more of you than them.
one thousand years – john’s eternity
We had nothing but hunger and greed and the tracks we laid are now highways.
andy c and the bikini bottom
Nobody was sexist in the 60's - that came with freedom of expression.
how to behave socially if you are a surfer (amended)
The rules of social engagement for the surfer on the town.
the slaughterhouse, the cooking room.
A dark passageway, all the walls wet and over there a young man racking up a firehose. He watches you pass by. The smell in here is overpowering.
the engine fitter
Wordless, he beat Vince insensible, and then left him by the roadside. Roadkill.
justin beiber, his sorrow, and what it means to professional surfing
Justin Beiber doesn't surf, yet - but he might.
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