In the early weeks after Dave died, I was shocked when I’d see friends who did not ask how I was doing.
It was never my intention to take my son kerb-crawling to pick up a prostitute.
Patti Harney stops her unmarked sedan two blocks shy of her destination, the narrow streets packed with patrol cars, the light bars on top of the units shooting a chaos of color into the night.
Lana Darling had been home for ten minutes and she already wanted to run away.
When my book Young Digger was launched at the Australian War Memorial, a friend, Norma Allen, suggested I should tell the story of ‘Horrie the Wog Dog’ – another wartime waif who was...
September 1939, Sydney, Australia Sandwiched between two policemen, the woman descends the gangplank of the ship.
1964 Melbourne, Australia Anna switched off her electric typewriter and slipped her diary into the top drawer of her desk.
Jax loved a good what-if, especially the kind that offered a bit of safe, imaginary action.
Max turned at the lake’s edge and took his eyes off the road to absorb the one hundred and eighty degrees of stunning, hot pink sunset in front of him.
Carly scrambled from bed, stumbling and snatching at the darkness, caught between fight and flight.
That muggy morning in July my partner, Rich Conklin, and I were on stakeout in the Tenderloin, one of San Francisco’s sketchiest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods.
Autumn 1907 Billy Cameron sets out for Makatote A Sunday in May 1907 Billy Cameron, fourteen years old, his spirits as lively as the fiery red of his hair, set out through the bush towards Andersons’...
In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her.
In the Beginning Nelson, New Zealand Here Julia and I are, down by the creek below the yellow house the last summer she is with us.
It is quite well understood that a clinically depressed person will show little, if any, interest in constructive activity concerning future events or outcomes.