by Anne Skyvington | Jan 19, 2015 | Short Stories
Emerging from the metro station, Hannah opened her eyes on a strange world into which she’d stumbled by chance. All was new and filled with a radiance she’d never known before in the antipodean world she’d left behind. Hippies were twanging their guitars along the...
by Anne Skyvington | Jun 16, 2014 | Short Stories
The Trouble With Flying, from the 2014 Margaret River Short Story Competition, edited by Richard Rossiter, Published by Margaret River Press, 2014 Review first published by Margaret River Press This was the third year of the Western Australia Margaret River Story...
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 1, 2013 | Short Stories
He is waiting for me again this morning, out on the same post, watching me with one eye slanted as always, my jet black crow. He is out for what he can get, the crow. I give him titbits, a piece of meat or a worm or two that I dig up in the garden. He sits there and...
by Anne Skyvington | May 1, 2013 | Short Stories
Knitting and Other Stories from the 2013 Margaret River Short Story Competition, edited by Richard Rossiter. Published by Margaret River Press, 2013 (First published on Margaret River Press website). The three stories I’ve chosen to review attracted me first and...
by Anne Skyvington | Oct 3, 2012 | Short Stories
Charlotte was a much longed-for baby. I had waited five years into my marriage before I conceived. The experience of being pregnant, of giving birth, and of holding her in my arms eclipsed everything that had gone before. November 1979: I felt the first flutterings...
