Logline: In a drought-stricken Australian town already gutted by corporate water theft and economic decline,a determined mayor launches a desperate bid to host an Olympic event-trying to save her dying community. Summary: The Bid is a sharp, character-driven dramedy about environmental activism, small-town survival,and the absurd lengths people go to when no one is listening.... Continue Reading →
WIP Bogeyman for Hire
Logline: When a cash-strapped primary school teacher takes on a side hustle to raise moneyfor his sick dog by dressing up as the Bogeyman and scaring misbehaving kids (with fullparental permission). But when a real supernatural entity shows up, the kids he's been terrorisingmight be his only hope to survive the night. Summary: Bogeyman for... Continue Reading →
Secret Women’s Business
Sonya sat in her Audi Q5 parked on the side of the road. The key in the ignition was set to accessories so she could have the seat warmer on. This function wasn't available in her last Audi and it took her a little while to realise that no, she hadn't peed herself, it was... Continue Reading →
Mr Robot
‘Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank; give a man a bank and he can rob the world.’ -Tyrell Wellick. Hello, friend. If you could wipe all of your debt, would you do it? Not just your debt but your family’s, your friend’s, their families, would you do it? If you... Continue Reading →
Tales from the Pine Tree Forest
I don’t recall how the obsession with building cubby houses came about. It must have been connected to the innate compulsion to prevent the flow of the stream near the bike track by constructing dams of pebble and stone. King Cnut had nothing on us.
Changing Mood: Trajan’s Column
This essay will examine Trajan’s Column through the writings of American philosopher John Dewey (1859 – 1952) to discuss the aesthetics of the column and its aim to immortalise the Emperor Trajan, his army, and the Roman Empire. I will also analyse how the viewer’s perception of the column has been altered over the past... Continue Reading →
Buttons (short story)
While reaching out his wrinkled index finger, Frank Goldstein, sixty-two, briefly pondered Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. At this specific moment in time, he was both for and against it. Human beings must have evolved from some sort of simian species; what else could account for the amount of hair growing from his knuckles? On... Continue Reading →
Lisa Rufus 