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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Storycuts
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'The digital and the short form have always made a good pair - not surprising given that short, simple storytelling and narrative can easily be read on-screen, and fill up the empty hours of a morning or evening commute. With this in mind, Random House have this week decided to launch the Australian branch of Storycuts, a list of the best short fiction and essays by local authors, selected from larger collections and made available as standalone ebooks...' (Source: Publisher's website)

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y separately published work icon Here is a Boar's Left One Anson Cameron , Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012 Z1862880 2012 single work short story 'In the dawning days of Science v, God, a zoologist vivisects a gorilla to disprove evolution and has his own brain placed in an ape's head. '
 Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012
y separately published work icon Strange Times Georgia Blain , Milsons Point : Random House , 2012 Z1862887 2012 single work essay 'As a child Georgia Blain craved normality. With both parents in the public eye and the 1970s in full swing, she dreamt of a family more like the versions depicted in her mother's weekly newspaper column. At the end of her primary years, Georgia is given the opportunity to reinvent herself, change schools and begin Opportunity Class, only to discover that all environments expose Strange Times.' (Source: Publisher website)
 Milsons Point : Random House , 2012
y separately published work icon Good Morning, Again Elliot Perlman , Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012 Z108139 1995 single work short story 'This is the morning after the night before.

Here come the regrets, the embarrassment, the chivalry and the longing. Unfortunately she could have been nearly anyone. But she can never be you. '


 Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012
y separately published work icon Desperate Acts Richard Flanagan , Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012 Z20964 1995 single work prose biography Out of a Wild Sea Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012
y separately published work icon His Blue Period Deborah Robertson , Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012 Z1568545 2008 single work short story

'Every seasoned player in the mating game claims to have their own type, and the narrator of this story about the uses and abuses of contemporary love and sex wants to tell you about his. But even in the most casual of encounters, it seems, something may be left behind...' (Storycuts abstract)

 Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012
y separately published work icon Merlo Girls Nick Earls , Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012 Z1790558 2010 single work short story 'Two men, no longer youthful, through conversations about coffee, communism, cricket and the narrowing of possibilities explore the architecture of their friendship.' (Storycuts abstract)
 Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012
y separately published work icon Murder Most Abstract Matthew Condon , Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012 Z1862902 2012 single work short story mystery 'A recently retired NSW copper, on the Gold Coast hunting for his retirement property in which to enjoy his twilight years, finds himself passing an old foe, Boltcutter, from the Kings Cross Underworld, as he walks toward Main Beach. Before he knows it he is embroiled in the hunt for some missing Ian Fairweather paintings and trying to resolve a cold case or two.' (Storycuts abstract)
 Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012
y separately published work icon The House on Hill Street Judy Nunn , Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012 Z1790593 2010 single work short story crime 'Hill Street - such a respectable address in a respectable suburb of West Hobart - the perfect place of residence for Professor Jameson and his wife and sons.

But the neighbours are becoming concerned. Eileen Jameson and the boys haven't been seen for quite some time...

When a gruesome discovery points the finger, quite literally, at the Professor's house, Inspector Max Carruthers and Detective Sergeant Lucas Matthews come knocking at the door. It's a day they will never forget ...' (Storycuts abstract)
 Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012
y separately published work icon The Wardrobe (Nancy's Story) Judy Nunn , Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012 Z1211418 1994 single work short story romance 'When struggling young journalist Nancy buys a tiny rundown terrace in Surry Hills she knows nothing about the previous owner, other than the old lady died six months earlier.

But a dusty box retrieved from underneath the old wardrobe in an upstairs bedroom soon changes all that.

And the lives, loves and losses of Emily Roper and her best friend Margaret are tantalisingly revealed...' (Storycuts abstract)
 Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012
y separately published work icon Sliver of Doubt Michael Pryor , Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012 Z1862911 2012 single work short story fantasy 'Judging a flower arranging competition because your father, the Prime Minister, is busy almost seems like a punishment. But when you?re Aubrey Fitzwilliam, magical genius, things rarely go to plan, and the day takes a decidely non-floral turn when Aubrey is asked for help in a suspected case of magical blackmail. Secret societies, spies, a basement laboratory? Aubrey won?t let a barred window ? and the possibility of mortal danger ? stand in his way. Sliver of Doubt is a story set in the Laws of Magic world.' (Storycuts abstract)
 Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012
y separately published work icon Lancelot Sophie Masson , Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012 Z1198056 2002 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Kalimat : An International Periodical of English and Arabic Creative Writing , December no. 16 (Arabic) 2003; (p. 32-39)
— Appears in: Kalimat : An International Periodical of English and Arabic Creative Writing , December no. 16 (Arabic) 2003; (p. p.32-39) 'The heroes and heroines of Arthurian legend have never ceased to fascinate us. But what were they like before they knew their destiny? Award-winning author Sophie Masson imagines what Lancelot's childhood under the Lake might have been like - and the life-changing moment that set him on the path to immortal fame and legend.' (Storycuts abstract)
 Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2012
y separately published work icon The Moth Mass Gregory Day , Sydney : Random House , 2012 Z1914527 2012 single work short story 'Rural Victoria 1865, the heat comes in and all the signs of the next drought on its way. At times like these no one seems to mind putting on their best clothes and making the long journey to the cool, bluestone church on a Sunday morning. But it is not only humans seeking shelter and solace on this Sunday morning.' (Publisher's blurb)
 Sydney : Random House , 2012

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First known date: 2012
    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House , 2012 .
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Brief Revival for Time Poor Fran Metcalf , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 - 18 November 2012; (p. 20)
Brief Revival for Time Poor Fran Metcalf , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 - 18 November 2012; (p. 20)
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