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You appear in a building overlooking the ocean. One wall is made
entirely of glass, so that you can see the rolling of waves and the
breaching of humpback whales in the distance. The other walls have
select pieces of contemporary art embellishing them. In the middle
of the room is a table upon which sits a vase filled with irises.
Several lit buttons on the tabletop attract your eye. You press one.
In a few sparkling moments a handsome gentleman appears. He motions to
the panorama outside the window and says, "The Age of Adventure has not
ended, now it simply begins from within."
New
Utterly cool musings upon the genuine nature of the essay.
Empathy
by Katherine Phelps
How one person began a journey toward nurturing more peace in the world.
Hypernovels
This will take some reading! A full-on hypernovel that turns Homer's
Odyssey upside down and shakes it up a bit for fun. Odysseus
is a woman in this version, travelling in a modern mythic world.
Stories
A reverie about the quality of Christmas in Australia 2003.
Explore the connections between a utopian and a distopian society,
what it means to the people living in these societies, and what it means
to us today. Thought provoking stuff.
Henro
by Edwina Breitzke
A story about a Buddhist pilgrimage, and a literary meditation.
Pay attention to the interactive landscape. This story links together
in unique ways and bears going through more than once.
Eclipse
by Shane Taylor
Shane Taylor's investigation into family relations makes brilliant
use of hyper-narration.
Philippa Burne is an up and coming Australian author who is making
her debut here as a writer of hyperfiction.
Though written in Australia this story recalls the days of yore in Ireland.
We are very honoured to be carrying a story by Charles Johnson,
winner of the 1990 American National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award
and a Guggenheim fellow. His writing is not only vivid and exciting,
it shows a real depth of personal wisdom.
Emotionally charged science fiction.
Articles
Enjoy a taste of coffee history and Melbourne coffee culture.
A wish list set forth to help anyone who wants to create fair and
inclusive stories that reflect a true 21st century mentality.
Tools of the Digital Storyteller
by Katherine Phelps
My attempt to de-mythology the artistic lifestyle.
A thoughtful travelogue by an Australian visitor to Auschwitz.
A personal essay by a musician who loves music more than status.
Poetry
These are select poems Hamilton created to evoke the character of each
card of the major arcana in a tarot deck. His insights are inspiring.
Untitled (impossible)
by Adam Ford
Yes, the author left this poem untitled, but we had to give it a
title for linking and storage. Explore a little surrealism. Does our
imagination create what we experience?
A gastronomic poem of romantic dimensions
Untitled (rent)
by Adam Ford
Do you know where the line between mere sentience ends and sapience
begins? This poem deals with the consequences of such recognition.
Beard
by Adam Ford
A poem about the peculiar doings of facial hair.
Biology
by Alicia Sometimes
This poem has me wondering at just how Mother Nature's mind works.
This poem has me wondering at just how Alicia Sometimes' mind works.
Now I'm really concerned.
Wind
by Hester Hamilton
Yay! More poetry and a Haiku at that.
Our first poem! Let this be encouragment to other versifiers.
Visual Art
Some early efforts at illustration. Here colour, humour, and the
natural world meet.
Paintings by a well known Melbourne artist.
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