Star Ocean: The Second Story

Used to love playing this video game back in the good old Blockbuster video days, when I'd hire it out over and over again. No point in writing much more. If you enjoy old school role playing games (such as Final Fantasy or Zelda), you'll enjoy this. It has a great sci-fi adventure story, fun …

Shameless View Grab

Just noticed I'm close to 10,000 all time views so this. Keywords. . . . Hmmmm. . . . Boobs. Sex. War. Nude. Trump. Coronavirus. Fire. Climate. Climate change. Climate crisis. Impeach. Impeachment. Drugs. Star Wars. That'll do. And an eye grabbing photo: Carnival, Brunswick Heads NSW. Greta Thunberg. Kobe Bryant. Now we wait. . …

Ghost Country Las Vegas

We were slumped deep in the Circus Circus’ bar, when the drugs began to wear off.  1pm – early morning by Vegas time.  My amigo Samo was taking the effects of the previous night hard.  He looked angry, bestial, yet defeated, like a coyote road-killed while mating.  We’d just returned to base after recovering his …

Rebel Without and Within

Visiting foreigners and returning expats apparently see Australia as a bit of a mythical place. Our larrikinism and disdain for authority is much vaunted, while in fact we’re a pretty conformist bunch. Pete, our protagonist, has noticed he might be standing with a few others at a pedestrian crossing, no cars in sight, yet most …

Julie Falling

She can only hear wind rushing past her ears.  Her mind couldn’t avoid what it tripped over until it was too late.  It was a very small rock, fixed firm in the ground.  It took the form of a child’s giggle over what she perceived to be her weight.  Even though her size is, now, …

Faraway Fred

Tick, tock.  Tick, tock.  An otherwise silent room.  Lying on the master bed is a man old, once young.  All his life he’d been one to look forward – to milestones, achievements, joy, and even sorrow.  But he’d been recently reminiscing.  And as he was wont to do, he started at the beginning: his first …

Another Party

Another party. They’re all the same, to me. Sure, some people vary apart from the inevitable regulars who inhabit my surrounding social circles. And the music. That of course depends on whose party it is, and the type of crowd in attendance – until everyone gets drunk and starts obnoxiously commandeering the speakers without even …

The Appointment

A Victorian Young Writers Award 2014 shortlisted entry, by James Noonan 'Is it cancer?' It seemed only natural to bring up. He’d wanted to break the silence somehow, and when your pants were by your ankles and there was another man’s hand fondling your testicles, small talk was kind of out of the question. Phil …

Ignorance is Piss (Weak)

The suburban Southport share house did not, theoretically, offer ideal living conditions for someone of my disposition.  My name was the only one on the lease, when I first moved there in order to take up a geographically convenient position as president of a political group not officially engaged in domestic Australian operations; but whose …

My Top Ten Books

I was nominated by Kristy Muir to list my top 10 books.  Figured I might as well blog it.  Below is the list, and a short justification for each of them (to those that didn't make it; you're still awesome): 1. 1984 - George Orwell It fostered in me a deep disrespect for and suspicion …