Fiction
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HURA
The story behind the story: This rather random short story was inspired by the title of a poem which popped into my head not long ago: Cutting the Cloth of Heaven. This story was based upon the phrase, and grew… Continue reading
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THE DAY THE RAIN CAME
The story behind the story: This piece was partly inspired by the dry summer we’ve had and by something else I can’t really put into words – perhaps the idea that spiritual things may coexist alongside physical things… Nonethless, such… Continue reading
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SOMETHING BLUE
Originally, I wrote this short story for a uni assignment. I ended up submitting it to the Tasmanian Writer’s Prize and it got shortlisted and published in Forty South’s Annual Short Story Anthology. Something Blue tells the simple story of… Continue reading
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Linton the Suburbanite
Coming to you in a number of installments over a period of five weeks or so. Keep an eye out on my social media – I’ll do a post whenever the next part is up. The story behind the story:… Continue reading
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THE PALACE
The story behind the story: This short story is an intervention of the first scene in Shakespeare’s King Lear. It’s set on the American frontier, and being an avid Western-reader, I can honestly say I had a hard time writing… Continue reading
Grace Fatchen 