Baked Potatoes
What I love about baked potatoes is that they bend to your will, or, more accurately, your fridge. Whatever random semi-expired leftover ingredients you can …
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Dirty Dancing
Last year we were on holiday in, Bendigo, Ballarat, not sure, some place that begins with a ‘B’. Holiday houses are one of the few …
My Kid’s Creative Writing Homework Which Is Definitely Not A Story About Some YouTube Gamer He Idolises
Once upon a time there was a boy named Ben. Ben was not a YouTube gamer. Ben was very boring. Ben didn’t even know there …
Minutes to Baseball Pants
CEO: Thanks everyone for being here! We can all agree this new sport we’ve created is really coming along well. President: We called it baseball, …
This One Time I Accidentally Impersonated a D-List Starlet
This One Time, maybe ten years ago, I decided I was sick of wearing glasses and would laser my eyeballs. Only two places did it …
Everything I Could Buy With My One-Off $250 Election Payment
Half a tank of petrol Four fifths of the family’s weekly grocery shop A federal integrity commission A house deposit or some avocado toast A …
Song of My Husband After Encountering an Unspecified Animal During His Night-time Run
Verse:I’d never even heard of wildPanthersIn the hills before, I grew up in CanberraSo how could I have imagined itWhen I didn’t know theStories? Chorus:I …
Notes on a Tragedy
These are the thoughts of my eight year old son upon watching Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet (1996); Romeo is a dumb name. Explosions are …
All Writing Is Shit
Yes I’m serious. It sucks. You. Your writing. The person standing right there, trembling, clutching your pages and swearing to yourself that you’ll never let …