Smoke

Sometimes hope is all we have.

Smoke & Other Stories is a collection of eight stories and a closing poem set across rural Australia, the desert, the coast and the places in between where ordinary lives crack open under pressure.

A boy steers a tinnie away from a burning town while his father fights the fire on land. A mother and son get too close to a flooded river. A pregnant woman faces down three teenage girls in a park. A family holds together the performance of happiness for one last visit. A father drives to the end of a jetty.

These are stories about what people carry — grief, guilt, love, the weight of small transgressions — and the hope that persists even when it has no good reason to.
Smoke draws on two decades of writing.

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