When You Come by Crowded House
Craig Johnston Pantages Theater, Los Angeles, 1987 "It’s too loud,” she cried at a Little Feat concert. I knew immediately my marriage was destined for collapse.
Craig Johnston Pantages Theater, Los Angeles, 1987 "It’s too loud,” she cried at a Little Feat concert. I knew immediately my marriage was destined for collapse.
Stephen Andrew The Gershwin Room, The Esplanade Hotel, St Kilda, February 2013 Three or four times, as promised, Julia Zemiro makes mention of the neck brace. It’s become a prop, a point of identification, a punch line.
Stefan Schutt Reservoir 2012, Paris 2013 South Morang is the centre of the civilised universe.
Alyson Miller Snowy Mountains Highway, New South Wales, 2009 You lean in to kiss my collarbone, murmuring the chorus line, and it is in this moment that we hit something hard and the CD skips.
Lisa Jewell Loungeroom, Clarinda, Melbourne 1982 Mrs Rainer was a tyrant with a vacuuming fetish. She would make me take my shoes off before even looking at the carpet.
Aimee Knight Mary St / Electric Avenue / Wuthering Heights, Adelaide, 2012 – 2014 A proverbial banshee was born this morn and for her, we re-dub this oft-cursed cottage ‘Wuthering Heights’.
Lucia Nardo Fire-place, Melbourne, July 1993 The thick door of my home couldn’t protect me from that winter’s chill. Icy wind whistled between the jambs and into the house.
Casselise Rowe Between Coober Pedy and William Creek, outback Australia, June 2007 Two stray horses trotted up to the car, out of nowhere, curiously looking in on us as if also wanting to hear the music.
Rijn Collins The Metro, Melbourne, November 1995 Agoraphobia starts slowly. There’s a tremble of a hand on the doorknob, a flutter of your heart on the tram, and then suddenly it’s been two years of watching your housemates walk down the front path, without you.
Fiction by Aimee Said Siouxsie’s bedroom, suburbia, 2010 I let loose with some side kicks and moderate headbanging myself. When the track finishes we fall onto the bed, puffed and laughing like loons.