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."
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