SHORT STORIES

FLASH FICTION: THE PERFECT HOST

June 2019

Submitted for a Flash Fiction Competition for the Australian Writers Center, the rules stated that the story must include a button, be set at a party and include the sentence "The air was thick with___".

TRAVEL STORY: THE LAST THING I EXPECTED

April 2018

Winding cautiously up the cobbled road, our Uber driver Rodrigo glanced at me in the review mirror. “You go to party?”, he recited slowly from a translation on his phone. We were venturing at nightfall deep into the heart of Rio’s mountains, an unchartered territory that even some Cariocas (Brazilian residents) were not familiar with.