‘That’ll be 50 cents love.’ ‘Thanks Hazel’ said Marla as she took the carton of milk off the counter and dropped some change into a salvation army donation box. Nodding goodbye in her turn to leave the mopy 27 year old immediately became entangled in the bakery’s red and green fly curtain and fell outside … Continue reading The Failed Cultist IV: The end of the world
Category: Balendup
Probably wash your hands
And then it appeared.Small ringlets of matted fur tangled into a single clump of dirt. Knot upon knot tangling into something that couldn’t have been done intentionally. At first I thought it to be a discarded scrap of hessian, maybe half a bag of potatoes that someone left out in the sun. But as it moved, … Continue reading Probably wash your hands
The Failed Cultist Part III
Quiet and indifferent, the crest of morning began to build with a lazy amble upon the horizon. The mud yellow of sunrise filtered across Balendup, illuminating the chaotic mess of a third story apartment and a ritual left abandoned. Blood, still damp on the kitchen table, stagnantly reflected a small sun dog onto a patch … Continue reading The Failed Cultist Part III
The Failed Cultist Part II
‘How far down should I go?’ Marla thrust a shovel into the soil, her breaths hung visible the night air. It was Autumn and the wet leaf litter crunched noisily underfoot as she took pause, attempting to stamp some energy back into her legs. ‘I don’t know is 12ft a thing? Am I going to … Continue reading The Failed Cultist Part II
The Failed Cultist Part I
'Oh, hello!'And then there was nothing.Sounds continued as they ever did, but the finality of an ending never appeared. Nothing that radiated itself again and again.Feet trekked on cobbled streets, the wind played its melody through scattered leaves, millions of internal dialogs ran circles inside the minds of a still existing human race. ‘I was … Continue reading The Failed Cultist Part I
The Battle Of Balendup Creek 1925
A small collection of mourners gathered, during the early hours of Tuesday morning, in silent vigil to remember the largely unknown skirmish that took place near a small creek bed in the Belandup local park.The creek (Unnamed) is a quaint rivulet, leading to a duck pond, and has historically made the short walk to Belandup … Continue reading The Battle Of Balendup Creek 1925
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
Sunday Short Stories 