When Cate Christie had left the city, she had known it wasn’t going to be for good.
JURIS The importance of a big family Christmas was something I gained from Lois, but by 2013 it was a long time since we’d had one.
Lifting the corner flap of flyscreen, Robbie pushed against the stained- glass window of the schoolroom.
There were snowdrifts at the curbs and snow-buried benches in the parks and snowcaps on the street signs and fire hydrants and on the newel posts for the subway entrances.
For the duration of his wife’s disclosure, David’s eyes followed the lines of the patterned ceiling in their bedroom.
York – 1915 The argument had been tame, polite even, but there was no doubt in her mind that if she didn’t make a decision, it would be made for her.
Adam came into her office without knocking, startling her, and asked her if she’d seen his phone.
My birth served as fair warning that I’d be nothing but a troublesome little brat.
Thirty-nine years earlier September, 1886 – Dallas, Texas Aloysius Wade looked down at the main street of Dallas from the second-storey window of Wade Newspapers.
Sunset Ridge, south-west Queensland, Australia February 2000 Madeleine swore under her breath as she swerved and skidded in the red dirt to avoid hitting a sheep.
North Sydney, 1923 The jolt of knuckle on flesh pushed Jack backwards.
Autumn, 1989 Wangallon Station Forty emus raced across the road, their long legs stretching out from beneath thickly feathered bodies as their small erect heads fastened on the fence line some five hundred...
Autumn, 1982 West Wangallon Homestead North-west New South Wales Sarah stood quietly in the corner of the kitchen as her mother removed the piping hot scones from the oven and, wrapping a...
Ruthven Downs, 2014 It had been a long day in the stockyards.
Rachel Friday, 5 July 2013 Morning There is a pile of clothing on the side of the train tracks.
I have always had enormous respect, admiration and affection for nurses.
Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.
2007 When he emerges from the bathroom she is awake, propped up against the pillows and flicking through the travel brochures that were beside his bed.
The day Kim Sullivan’s world ended was disguised as an ordinary Wednesday.