Fading light

“I’m scared of bunyips.”

“Seriously?”

They went north, crunching gravel, and hoped they found the pale blue Nissan Skyline before dark.

They heard the ute stone-rolling from the south before they saw it.

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Jessica T Miskelly
A picture held me captive

“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.” ~Wittgenstein.

Raised on an imaginative diet of four-seasoned woods, solid-walled houses and cloaked, clear-speaking heroes, I’d managed to overlay such scenes onto our old home of Melbourne… but they made no sense here.

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Jessica T Miskelly