As I was heading down the street to stock up on fruit and veg today:
Random guy: Well, all families have skeletons in their closets
Girl: Yes, but that doesn’t mean you have to invite them to the dinner table

My little sis to my step-dad: Dad, can we have some carrots?
Justin, surprised at a request for something other than junk food: What for?
Little Sis: So we can see in the dark!

From The Age:

I’m not sure how, unless they resort to raising the dead. But I suppose zombies are en vogue.

A quick check of the trackbacks to this website has informed me that ‘The Glass Girl Looks Back’, which originally appeared in Shimmer, has been republished in translation in the Serbian blog-zine Antares.

From The Age:
Man’s body in boot tied to girl’s death

Things are getting a bit frantic over here, so I’m afraid that you won’t be getting much in the way of coherent blogging (not that that’s ever really a problem, I suppose). My laptop keyboard is still buggered, and has fits of semi-working, followed by seizures of not-working, making the whole writing stories business a [...]

From The Age:
Tourist caught smuggling lizards in pants
Lizards in pants? What’s next? Elephants in pyjamas?

The Racy Pages Surprise anthology has picked up my 100 word drabble, ‘Explorations’. This story was inspired by Jono’s tendency to leave his jeans and socks strewn about the house. Fortunately, he’s in charge of the washing, so I’ll forgive him.

Taken in Germany last year. I’m quite sure a troll or two lives beneath this bridge.