Category: Micro Fiction
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Words of love
The house was empty and void of life, echoes of children playing and celebrations of significant milestones once filled this now sullen place. It was difficult having to pack up a lifetime of memories, but he had become too unwell to manage on his own. I carefully folded out the cardboard boxes, taping the bottoms…
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The Drought
The sky above was tar black and the rain imminent. This ancient red land, cracked and parched and starved of the rain for many months. Cattle wandered through the vast outback station, emaciated and with no grass for them to feed on. Dry, rocky creek beds snake through the landscape for miles, waiting to flow…
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Tapestry of life
It was a grand, but solemn occasion. People came from all parts of the town donning their mourning clothes, an outward expression of their inner grief. The bell in the little church on the hill tolled over the valley, a signal to all that the matriarch of this community had passed into the afterlife. Grace…
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The Jackaroo
The vast expanses of the outback station rolled out as far as the eye can see. Ripples of heat refracted as the sun scorched this barren red land. Rock formations rose like giant monuments, formed in the Dreaming, out of the parched and cracked earth. The ragged sheep roamed the outback station, searching for a…
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Colour of the Fall
Festive boughs of claret reds, sweltering oranges and honeycomb yellows lighten the darkening days as winter approaches. Air crisp and sharp as the autumn winds whistle through the sparse canopies above. Leaves dance elegantly as they descend earthward, making their final journey to the ground below. A carpet of earthy hues; a kaleidoscope of colour…
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My home
I stand and gaze in wonder, dwarfed by the giant Eucalypts in this ancient temperate forest. These pillars standing proudly as they have done for eons, like the columns of the parthenon, reaching earnestly for the heavens. Songs of lorikeets and rosellas, a magnificent and lyrical choral ode filling the air. Creeks distantly babbling and…
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Frayed
Another night of being together, but feeling world’s apart. The veracity of their relationship of late was being tested at every turn. They’d been together for what seemed like forever; grown old together, laughed together and had a family together. Now things have irrevocably changed. The children have grown and have moved on with their…
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Drifting
He sits bolt upright in bed. Eyes as wide as dinner plates. Body rigid and gasping for air as if he was drowning. The room was familiar, but strange at the same time. His eyes acclimatise and breathing slows. This was the home he and his wife had built, but his mind drifted elsewhere. His…
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Carefree Days
It took every ounce of energy to find any motivation. Every day, the same monotonous drudgery. Crowded platforms and stifling trains. Soulless offices with endless rows of pods. Feigning interest in the seemingly endless tedium of life is such an artificial existence. Surely there is more to it than this. Wistfully I gaze at the…
Roads less travelled 