- Red Rattler
Katy Knighton
“What she liked most was walking outside and having no one else around.
Her property backed onto State Forest, and the only other dwelling on
her dirt road was the decommissioned train carriage, one of the old Red
Rattlers. It was a mystery how it had arrived, and who had arranged to
put it there …”
- The Fisherman’s Bucket
Luke Johnson
“The sirens were loud enough that anyone nearby might have parted their
curtains. Even though she was the very last of the Breeders, he would feel relief
that it would soon all be over. Only an hour or so before, he had conceived of a new plan; then pushed
it away …”
- Swallowed
Imogen Grbin
“Out here, deep in the ghost-quiet, the trees hum with the onset of summer.
Down past the clusters of saltbush, the groups of gentle bluebells,
along the rows of houses in stifling red-brick suburbia, around the bend
and through the trees. You follow her because she always knows where
she’s going …”
- And to all a good night!
Susan Mclaughlin
“He’d bought the DeLorean on eBay. It was over-priced, but he’d had no
choice. He’d needed a flux capacitor and Bunning’s had sold out in the
latest round of panic buying. Toilet paper. Flux capacitors. Ivermectin
and pickled onions. Who knew repeated pandemics could cause such
madness? …”
