“Do you think it’s funny?” He felt his voice rise. “Do I need to remind you what it is like to find some guy who tried to rape my sister dead behind a garbage bin with his throat cut open?” “Robin?” Lizzie looked around flushing slightly at the people who had begun to stare, “It [...]
Archive for September, 2009
The words on the page blended together to create images, faces, him holding a baseball bat and swinging it at that rapist’s head. Robin smiled inside, letting the images make him feel better. The bastard deserved it after what he had tried to do to Robin’s sister. After a while the images lost their beauty, [...]
“You just don’t get it,” Robin said leaning back in his chair. Lizzie held up her hands in silent protest but it did nothing to calm the anger inside of him. “I didn’t mean anything by it,” Lizzie said from across their table in the library, “I just don’t understand why you got into a [...]
We recognise it is a terrible tease to offer up a meagre 750 words from each story. For the majority of our writers, this is their first publishing adventure, though certainly not their first venture into the wonderful yet terrible world of fiction writing. Many of the writers here have considerable back-catalogues of stories, seen [...]
My first reaction when I was asked to contribute to Chinese Whisperings was one of joy. Every writer wants to be read and this is my first real chance to gain a wider readership. I liked the format and the challenge it presented to come up with a story using someone else’s character. But as [...]
There’s nothing like getting thrown into a new culture for discovering who you really are. All that is familiar is taken from you and you have to learn to think and live in a different way. You begin to question yourself, your upbringing, your values… indeed, everything you’ve lived for. That’s what I wanted to [...]
Chinese Whisperings invites you to kick back with your favourite beverage and Take Five with the Brisbane based author of Krappelin's Child Annie Evett.
The Red Book, Audio Trailer
