[Editor: This short story was published in The Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 2 October 1927.] A variant The innocent abroad (By “’Varsity Mac.”) Attired in a grey-tweed suit little too large for him, and carrying all the earmarks of a young dairy-farmer from the Darling Downs, Bob strolled through the Brisbane Botanic Gardens. He was thinking […]
A variant: The innocent abroad [short story, 2 October 1927]
Filed Under: short stories and anecdotes · Tagged: short story, SourceTrove, year1927
Grapes from a thorn [short story by Agnes L. Storrie, 15 October 1887]
[Editor: This short story by Agnes L. Storrie was published in The Adelaide Observer, 15 October 1887.] The story-teller. Grapes from a thorn. A short story. [By “Ayea” — Agnes L. Storrie, Glenelg.] Being the First-prize Novelette at the S. A. Literary Societies’ Union Competition, September 22,1887. [Published by permission of the Executive Committee of […]
Filed Under: short stories and anecdotes · Tagged: Agnes L. Storrie (1864-1936) (author), short story, SourceTrove, year1887
The great Mendax transmitter [short story by Erle Cox, 27 March 1920]
[Editor: This short story by Erle Cox was published in The Australasian (27 March 1920).] The great Mendax transmitter. By Erle Cox. He lives a retired, misanthropic life, in spite of his big income. Partly, I think, because he is without exception the vilest-mannered man in the Commonwealth, and partly because of his undisguised contempt […]
Filed Under: short stories and anecdotes · Tagged: Erle Cox (author), science fiction, short story, SourceTrove, year1920
The quiet hour [story by C. J. Dennis]
[Editor: This story by C. J. Dennis was published in The Singing Garden (1935).] The quiet hour I have found in this Australian scene, of mountain and forest, of shaded creek and fern-filled gully, of cultivated gardens bordered by the virgin bush, much quiet peace and many joys — on rare occasions, inexpressible joys, far […]
Filed Under: short stories and anecdotes · Tagged: C. J. Dennis (author), short story, SourceIACLibrary, The Singing Garden (C. J. Dennis 1935), year1935
The besting of Bombastes [story by C. J. Dennis]
[Editor: This story by C. J. Dennis was published in The Singing Garden (1935).] The besting of Bombastes On the day that he brought himself first (and very confidently) under our notice we named him “Bombastes Furioso,” without hesitation, for it seemed to us that no other could suit him one half so well; because […]
Filed Under: short stories and anecdotes · Tagged: C. J. Dennis (author), short story, SourceIACLibrary, The Singing Garden (C. J. Dennis 1935), year1935
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