Reader Review: This is a clever anthology of modern Australian stories. Why clever? Because it mixes genres and styles and a way that makes the reading always i...

Sergei smiles as he sits down at her head. His lover grasps his long fingers and leisurely runs her tongue over them. His precious fingers! They are in her mouth! With a bite, she could ruin his career. I must intervene. I must! I tense, re...

This is the memoir of a young mother struggling to feed, clothe and house her family on “the most bombed island on earth” — Malta, during World War II. Written by two generations of eye-witnesses to the destruction wrought on the strategica...

“Do you know who I am?” rasps the man. “Indeed, Mr Dakamos. Everyone up here has followed your career with interest.” “Then you know what I have achieved. I have united the six continents with blood and fire! I have torn d...

Bikinis undulated, underwater pennants marking high points in Lachie’s life. Pink crocheted triangles, stiff with salt water, unknotted with fumbling fingers his first time. Sporty Lycra, cupping surf carnival competitors’ taut buttocks....

"The men drew up a couple of wooden stools and sat, one on each end of the hearth, hands wrapped around the mugs, the toes of their boots almost in the glowing embers, the mud drying into pale flakes. The smaller of the two, the one who had remain...

“Is he going to be woofed and poofed like my Pixie?” “Woof… woof, woofed and p-poofed?” At Bill’s quizzical frown, the child pointed to the dog-grooming salon. “Mum says Pixie costs a fortune to keep smelling an...

“People don’t understand how desperate you have to be to eat a boot,” he replied. “Exploration of uncharted territory is very demanding, especially in the arctic. They don’t realise what we went through: the bitter cold, t...

This collection of erotic tales, by sixteen established and new authors, gives a fresh insight into contemporary erotica. Chosen from the entrants in the Stringybark Erotic Fiction Awards, David Vernon has selected eighteen entertaining, amusing ...