SHORT STORIES

The Final Diaries of Herman Garfield
appears in the Penguin anthology, Big Night Out #3

'Garfield' is macabre love story about a bipolar, nerdy clarinet player from Woy Woy, who is trying to kill himself. His elderly landlady finds out about the damage to the flat in his failed attempts to do so and demands payment before he 'checks out'. Being insolvent, she comes up with an audacious plan for him to repay the debt.

 

 

Breathless
appeared in the Penguin anthology, Heatwave - Penguin Summer Stories # 5

Breathless is a funny and poignant yarn about an asthmatic spin-bowler who falls in love with a Spanish girl with a striking birthmark across her face.
Dorian calls it, "a story of love and lineament."