“Allopathetic medicine”
Oh dear. Hopefully I think before I speak more often than I apparently think before I type.

The cover for the anthology Scenes for the Second Storey, which will be published by Morrigan Books in September, has been revealed:

Here’s the spiffy ToC:
Dream Machine - David Conyers
She Said - Kirstyn McDermott
The Blind Man - Felicity Dowker
I’ve Seen The Man - Paul Haines
The Desert Song - Andrew McKiernan
Home - Martin Livings
It’s All Over - [...]

From a WIP:
“sucked up by the vortext. . .”
Clearly, I’m the queen of the portmanteau neologism.
And also:
There were even those who refused to set food on what could be considered the ground here. . .

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From The Age:
Breaking News
6:45AM Wheels of bus packed with kids fall off

This one was me, writing an informative (ha!) article:
. . .hygiene laws are pretty sick

Personally, I think they should have called it the Apple Scroll.

Alisa Krasnostein at Twelfth Planet Press has picked up my short story ‘How to Select a Durian at Footscray Market’ for the forthcoming anthology Sprawl. You can check out the (quite impressive) full ToC at her blog.

My short story ‘Cod Philosophy’, first published in the now-defunct UK magazine Farthing, will be podcast by audio-zine Drabblecast. This is my second sale to the zine–my short story ‘Aqua Vita’ featured mid last year.

Today my spell checker made the following suggestions:
Change Hainanese to hairiness
Change Larrabeiti to laryngitis
Change Skendgrot to skeleton