Fiction

Chase love through the past, present and future in ‘Devilled Eggs at the End of the World’.

Motherhood is a haunted house in this wildly original short story.

The local park is a site of both naivety and menace for one young mother.

I am a liar and he thinks it’s because he is not worth the truth.

Sex elicits the uncontrolled exchange of private memories in this short story. But how does one make sense of what is given and what is taken?

All of the natives were good mimics, but in Magpie the skill was heightened to a preternatural degree.

From the award-winning writer, journalist and human rights defender, a story about a war hero who refuses to kill again.

‘He has no words for what has happened to their family, why they are alone together at the beach at the wrong time of year.’

We’ve told the reporters what we saw, but they aren’t too keen to hear it. Two minutes before Philo walked into the RSL, the hearse carrying her coffin hit a pothole, bounced off its front wheels and swerved around the gas line. The coffin slid out the hearse and cracked on the road. The September sun washed over her body, the same body that had lain for three days, circled by standing fans to stop the rot, until the son found the money for the funeral. There on the road, for all of us to see, she got up.

Before I could remind him he was well over deadline—before I could invoke the phantoms of all the editors, copyeditors, proofreaders, printers, designers, marketers, social media managers, sales agents, booksellers, BookTokkers and adoring public waiting for him to complete his next novel—the line had gone dead.

Desperate Literature Prize 2025: What would it be like to be the only one left? Solitude is the domain of the sole survivor.

KYD School Prize 2025 Winner: Woman or creature, man or beast? Who’s to know in a girls’ world.

Well maybe there’s no ancient lore here, no sacred stories or grand lineage, just you and your thousand sisters slotted into clear-plastic-fronted boxes.

Grief is a four-winged creature in this exclusive new story by the highly acclaimed author of The Burrow.

In this funny story by one of the country’s most exciting new authors, a dog becomes a cooking sensation.