There’s a tiny story behind every happenstance. A book, diminutive in size, lays open upon the grass in the shade of an oak tree, its pages slowly beginning ruffled by a soft wind drifting past. The pages turn with a flick, then lingering as if held in place by a dreaming reader skimming over a disinteresting … Continue reading Book By The Old Oak
Author: Jacob McCray
Aya and Carrick Part I
‘Hmm, that probably isn’t right…’ A wet thudd of viscera began to slowly patter back to the ground; A new hole ripped into the road expired with stray a magical energy and nipped at slow pieces of air hungrily. Haggard and dressed in a moth-eaten brown robe, the stunned Wizard coughed while lying upon the … Continue reading Aya and Carrick Part I
Bit Of A Drop
The view was nice. Below, in the thoughtless spread of a town planner drunk of both power and rum, the first rays of morning sunlight were trickling across another typical Sydney Sunday.Slander regarding Sir Ralph Darling and the Sydney CBD left for another day; the wisps of clouds that patted against Norman began to … Continue reading Bit Of A Drop
Balendup Golf Links
This handbook was created to give the new player, and those who drink to forget, information on the Balendup links golf course.The course is tended by survivors of the community garden and is notable for its many hazards replacing the greens and fairways of the course’s 10 holes. Hole 1 – Demon bluffPar: 6Distance: 81mHazards: … Continue reading Balendup Golf Links
Balendup Community Garden
Horror is a thing you can’t watch, terror a thing that you can never look away from…flowers are terror-ific. Ohhiya! Welcome to the Balendup community garden, the biggest community garden in the extended shire of Balendup (no matter what the rotary club keep putting up on that HORRID sign of theirs)…..anyway! At the Community garden, … Continue reading Balendup Community Garden
Balendup Art Gallery
Thank you for visiting the Balendup art gallery, voted most flammable building from 1983 through to 1994. We are currently showcasing a collection of local artists and their early works.This, now carbon neutral, art gallery is best enjoyed walking counter clockwise around the circular room and reading these small, inobtrusive, plaques along the way. If you … Continue reading Balendup Art Gallery
A Crisis In Downtown Balendup
J.McCray2018 We have very recently become aware of an emergency situation developing near the pub and two hotels of Balendup shire main. Reports of what is being called a “Schooner mass overpopulation crisis” have begun to shed light on these distressing events and local authorities have urged bystanders to remain calm. The combination of the … Continue reading A Crisis In Downtown Balendup
Up Round Where the River Bends
Angus Craddic was in a barrel. He hadn’t always been in a barrel but now, in this moment, he was vividly aware that he was, without a shadow of a doubt, sitting in something that very much resembled a barrel. How Angus became trapped in this uniquely horrible boat, bobbing its way down a … Continue reading Up Round Where the River Bends
The Kings of the Sewer
The sewer is a wonderful place. Long ago a king, jolly and addled by intoxicants, made a friendly bet with the city Gnomes. For 100 gold coins it was wagered that they could not create a sewer so perfect that even the gods would tell fables of its beauty. Not understanding the concept of levity … Continue reading The Kings of the Sewer
Mad Men making progress
Dr Bertram Everbridge was mad. Not really mad at anything particular but flagrantly, windmill storming, mad within his own mind. This particular strain of derangement occurs within small sections of the scientific world who, sick of day to day statical analysis, lash out far beyond what crazy sock fridays can allow them. ‘Nuclear stuff! … Continue reading Mad Men making progress