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New story up at AustralianReader.com

By TF | Published: May 17, 2010
A nonfiction piece I wrote about my experiences in Japan, titled ‘Under the brown fog’, is now up at AustralianReader.com. This piece has gone through a number of incarnations since I actually made the trip – my hope is that this is the strongest of them. It went through several versions as the result of hard [...]
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The ceremonies of the Yaum Arafat

By TF | Published: July 17, 2009
The pilgrims crowded up to the foot of the mountain: the loud “Labbayk” of the Badawin and Wahhabis fell to a solemn silence, and the waving of white robes ceased—a sign that the preacher had begun the Khutbat al-Wakfah, or Sermon of the Standing (upon Arafat). From my tent I could distinguish the form of [...]
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Aboriginal elder, Aunty Merle

By TF | Published: July 3, 2009
Aunty Merle There is no sign, only a numberless letterbox on a stand and a short ramp that leads to an open door. Inside, the centre is bare and quiet, so quiet that voices echo from one hall to the next. In a glass cabinet near the entrance are handmade necklaces, bracelets and earrings with little [...]
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Patching

By TF | Published: June 30, 2009
“…to join or unite the piece, marked by some action or condition [to preserve and make use of]… [for] a period of indeterminate length [of time in order to maintain tradition]” The field notes were stolen by mistake. When the robbers broke through my mother’s bedroom window, they did not foresee or plan to steal a [...]
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Writing stories that have already been written: David Foster Wallace and Malcolm Knox

By TF | Published: June 11, 2009
In 1996, following the success of his article, ‘Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All’, a story he wrote on the Illinois State Fair, David Foster Wallace was commissioned by Harper’s magazine to go on a seven night cruise. As with the fair, the journalistic framework of the project was simply [...]
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