Stories - Journal

Funded by Copyright Agency, Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, and our Founders Circle, Journal is an online column hosted on the Centre for Stories’ website showcasing writing by local, national, and international writers. The column includes stories of creative non-fiction about real personal experiences. Journal serves as an immediate response to the pandemic's effect on writers.

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Journal

WHAT LIES BENEATH by Bindy Pritchard

'But lockdown has caused nature to encroach upon my ordered world. Tendrils have creeped into the cracks. I crave daily walks with the family along the Djarlgarra river and at Piney Lakes Reserve.'
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BUS #242 by Barnali Ray Shukla

'The driver still furious, was chasing the Audi. I was still clutching onto the steel rod which had helped me unlike my fellow beings. A soundtrack of a war movie was playing in my head.'
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THE QUIETNESS OF GIVING UP WRITING by Ben Walter

'Writing is something we’ve spent years learning and refining, something that has formed our identities and how we understand ourselves; in giving up, we’re quitting before having the kind of success we might feel is warranted.'
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FACE FORWARD by Emily Paull

'When we spend too much time looking at ourselves in the mirror, women are labelled vain, conceited, self-obsessed, and yet so many of us, if asked, I am sure would say that we don’t like what we see.'
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SQUARE PEG, ROUND HOLE by Daley Rangi

'I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, desperately protecting my squareness with aggression and confusion, ensuring depression as the world demanded more from me with each passing year.'
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UNDER KIMBERLEY SKIES by Nandi Chinna

'As we have been taught to do by our Nyoongar friends, we pick up a handful of sand and introduce ourselves to the original owners and their ancestors and thank them for having us on the country.'
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THE DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN DRUNKARD by Abhimanyu Kumar

'The women worked in the homes of the colony while the men ran the illegal bootlegging operations, with full knowledge and tacit encouragement of the police.'
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PLAYING WITH BULLETS by Randa Khamis

'I grew up hearing what we endured. Stories of a time that now seems oddly familiar with its parallels. Like being confined to your home, fear of the outside world, a threat lurking in the streets.'
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I RAN (DRUNK, AT NIGHT) by Andrew Roff

'I’m in a nice, safe part of town, and anyway I’m a young man and my prefrontal cortex hasn’t quite finished developing, and I’m fast, so I have absolutely no fear of being assaulted.'
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