by Stories from the Archive | Sep 16, 2022 | Short story
by Mrs Campbell Praed (1851-1935) There is a great lake in one of the inland districts of Northern Australia. It is closed in by green ranges, which slope down to a beach of silvery sand. It has no outlet for its waters, which are salt as the sea. Pelicans and wild...
by Stories from the Archive | Sep 9, 2022 | Short story
by R McKay Tully Having given up working the land after many years of drought, a man loses his way in the outback. This short story first appeared in 1903 in The Dawn. “High noon, not a cloud in the sky,” quoted Ted Morris as he staggered out of the dense scrub...
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...
