Acknowledgments

These stories, in slightly different form, have been published in the following literary journals:

‘Blind Date’ in The Monthly, Melbourne, Australia, June 2005, pp 46-49 (Included in The Best Australian Stories 2005)

‘Republic of Outer Barcoo’ in Griffith Review, December 2010.

‘Salvage’ (as ‘Weird People’) in Overland (Melbourne, Australia) Sept 2010.

‘The Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman’ in Nimrod International Journal (USA), Vol. 49, no. 1, Fall 2005, pp. 142-150. (Finalist for Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction)

‘Hurricane Season’ in Sunday Arts Magazine, The Independent, London, Jan 25, 2004. Included in The Best Australian Stories 2004.

Also in The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection, 2011.

‘Moon River’ in One Book, Many Brisbanes: Fourth Anthology of Brisbane Stories, Brisbane City Council, 2009.