Life & Mortality
Death Of A Crow
Driving home in the spring twilight. Through the window comes the fragrant exhilarating air that stimulates birds into mating frenzies and fatal…
Life & Mortality
Death, animals, hospitals, family, and the ocean's habit of nearly killing people.
9 essays
Life & Mortality
Life & Mortality
Happy New Year From the Ocean Depths
As the noise of multiple slurred countdowns to the New Year echoed down my street I imagined the passengers of one of…
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Mullets and Moonboots at Maroondah Hospital
Sallow complexions all round thanks to the harsh light rebounding off the cream walls. There are animal murals (hanging monkeys, lounging zebras,…
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Death of a Pet Mouse
9.00am Nursing a dying Darkness. Find her lying still against her food tray. Later there is a slight shivering and movement of a paw Her…
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Dead Meat
I am not a vegetarian. But I’m trying to be because the killing of animals bothers me. As a city-bred child the…
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“Flight” to Hobart
Bass Strait surprisingly mild. Tailplane cracked like an egg on impact, fell away and sank allowing us to be flushed out by…
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Dispatching Animals
The QI Book Of The Dead estimates that approximately 90 billion people have lived since the human race began. Just think of the…
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My Precious Princess
I saw my daughter off for her first day of school this week. My precious princess. My little heartbreaker. As she pranced…
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Refuge In a Watery Grave
The scenes of the refugee boat striking rocks on the shore of Christmas Island illustrated the awful power of the ocean. The initial footage…