Books and Stories

Cassandra

Finalist Best Fantasy Novel 2017 Aurealis Awards

Cassie is a farmer’s daughter with a fortune teller gifts. She tries to use her psychic gift to help the people she loves and mostly fails. Her genius neighbour Athena offers her help, except Athena is a Greek goddess reincarnate. It might be Australia in the 1980s but the remaining Greek gods still think humans are their plaything. Buy at your favourite online bookstore

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The Dark Poet

Some people are so broken they can only cut us.

With poetic dexterity, Aurealis Award finalist Kathryn Gossow interweaves eight short stories of longing and alienation featuring outcasts and the misunderstood. From a homeless storyteller to a gardening soothsayer, to a copy editor who owns a pair of stubborn chickens, readers will come face to face with the humanity of people easily judged by a rigid society.

At the heart of these stories is the Dark Poet, a charismatic and broken man, who leaves a trail of debris drifts in and out of people’s lives.

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Published by Odyssey Books

Stories and Flash Fiction

Memory Games, in StylusLit

Turning the Corner, Unsettling Wonder

Grandma’s House,” Gingerbread House

Soulmates, Black: Australian Dark Culture

Cold Kiss, Black Box Anthology

Dance Home, Cezanne’s Carrot

Boys and Cars, elimae

Women who do Lunch, Salome Magazine

Reflections on a Town Bike, Diddle Dog

The Applicant, Antipodean SF

Worm, Cezanne’s Carrot

Wild things and Wild birds

July 6, 2019July 7, 2019 by Kathryn Gossow, posted in Book Fix

There were two Kevin Bacon films on TV this morning. They must be there to remind it is time for #6degrees of separation. So, I pop on over to booksaremybestandfavourite and see our starting book this month is Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. 1. You gotta love Where the Wild Things Are, … Continue reading Wild things and Wild birds

The Second Baby

July 4, 2019July 4, 2019 by Kathryn Gossow, posted in Book Fix, The Dark Poet

This is the anxiety dream I had on the morning of launching The Dark Poet. In Real Life, I want to wake at 6.30am and do some last minute preparation. In My Dream, I wake late, at 7.30. I am worried about having slept in. I will be late and ill-prepared. Then I realise I … Continue reading The Second Baby

Why we love Short Stories?

June 23, 2019July 7, 2019 by Kathryn Gossow, posted in Book Fix, Short Stories and Flash Fiction

Short fiction is as old as humankind. Anecdotes, myths, fairy tales, tales and legends were told and written long before ‘short stories’ were defined as a genre. It is the novel that could be a called new and fang-dangled. The first short tales were told before humans could write with storytellers often using rhyme to … Continue reading Why we love Short Stories?

Where’s the Rakija?

June 16, 2019 by Kathryn Gossow, posted in Book Fix, Pocket Book Club

The Pocket Bookclub set a dangerous precedent when we emulated Eleanor Oliphant’s favourite dinner of vodka and pizza. It seemed that on every other page the characters in Téa Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife are drinking Rakija or Rakia. This is essentially fruit brandy from the Balkans which you cannot buy (easily) in Australia. We know … Continue reading Where’s the Rakija?

Cassandra

Finalist Best Fantasy Novel 2017 Aurealis Awards

The Dark Poet

Some people are so broken they can only cut us.

Stories and Flash Fiction

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