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Showtime!

They all knew how the fire started. It was the clogs.

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The Lincoln Highway

JUNE 12, 1954— The drive from Salina to Morgen was three hours, and for much of it, Emmett hadn’t said a word.

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Well Hello

Pre-emptively – it’s not an audition for a show and it’s not an ABC thing.

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Puff Piece

I pull into Doncaster Park ’n’ Ride, in north-eastern Melbourne.

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How to Take a Breath

Breathing covers a spectrum of needs, and it is important to know the best way to breathe in order to meet our needs at any moment, and how best we can move through sleep, rest, activity, exercise, sport, play, work, stress, ill health and recovery.

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Anything But Fine

The second it happens, I know my life is over.

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A Slow Fire Burning

Inside Laura's head, Deidre spoke. The trouble with you, Laura, she said, is that you make bad choices.

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The Gilded Cage

Running. They had to keep running. The night was dark, the cold so bitter that it pierced straight through to their bones, but still, they couldn’t stop. Not when death itself chased their heels.

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Dune: The Lady of Caladan

In her mind and heart, Jessica found herself at the bottom of an abyss.

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The Man Who Died Twice

Sylvia Finch wonders how much longer she can do this.

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Why you should give a f*ck about farming

If you had told me thirty years ago that I would be moved to write a book in my fifty-fifth year about farming, I would have said you were barking mad.

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Banquet

Evening shadows shroud his face in silhouette.

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Corporal Hitler’s Pistol

On Friday afternoons Flo Honeywood, wife of the eminent master builder Burley Honeywood, was required to go forth

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The Farmer’s Friend

The October wind twirled coffee-coloured willy-willies south across the Queensland border.

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The Wattle Island Book Club

Standing on the edge of the cliff, Grace Elliott turned her face to the sky.

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The Wolf's Howl

For a squire of noted charm and alleged cleverness, Reeve of Norwood is displaying neither of those traits today.

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CSI Told You Lies

‘So, why true crime?’

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12 Bytes

In 2009 – 4 years after it was published – I read Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near.

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The Echo Chamber

In a waiting room at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, George Cleverley sits quietly, looking at his five-year-old son

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The Paper Palace

Things come from nowhere.

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Empires

We are told not to judge the surface of things – that the truth lies deeper – and yet we judge surfaces all the time.

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Spudd: The Autobiography

I have a quote written on the walls at my gym, Spudds, that I refer to all the time. Don’t let fear hold you back.

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Moonwalking with Einstein

There were no other survivors.

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