by Stories from the Archive | Aug 5, 2022 | Short story
by Netta Walker (1868-1942) What does it matter for one soul more, Millions of souls have been lost before. —A. Lindsay Gordon. Through the drizzling rain along a dark and friendless road a woman journeyed, clasping in her cold and aching arms a frail human atom. She...
by Stories from the Archive | Jul 22, 2022 | Short story
by Ada Cambridge (1844-1926) “The other stories are very sentimental, but are not uninteresting, and are nicely told.” Review of At Midnight, and other stories by Ada Cambridge (1897). Lord Thomas de Bohun had been married twice—and more. In fact he was...
by Stories from the Archive | Jul 8, 2022 | Short story
by E Charles E Charles was the pseudonym for E C Morrice, born Elizabeth Charlotte Bingmann (1851-1941) THE hot Australian sunshine was streaming down upon the parched earth, burning up the last dry herbage in the bare paddocks, drying up the last yellow puddles of...
by Stories from the Archive | Jun 3, 2022 | Short story
by Ada Lindsay Duncan aka Mrs T C Cloud A country solicitor employs a governess for his children and discovers she has a mysterious past. Mr. James Coulson, solicitor and notary public, is a deservedly respected inhabitant of our township. Bluff, frank, and hearty, he...
by Stories from the Archive | May 20, 2022 | Short story
by Mary Gaunt (1861-1942) After braving the dual peril of floods and bushrangers, rural women face a moral dilemma. Gaunt’s short story, “Quits”, was first published in Windsor Magazine in Dec 1898 and reprinted in The Broad Arrow Standard in...
by Stories from the Archive | May 6, 2022 | Short story
by Isabel Grant (c1870-1952) A “pre-millennial” horror story by Isabel Grant, published in 1909. A “new-chum” Scottish nurse working in a mental asylum keeps her cool when a patient suffering from religious mania threatens to wreak destruction....
