The Kid on the Karaoke Stage & Other Stories

Georgia Richter

• Publisher: Fremantle Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781921696848
• Year: 2011

Featuring both established and emerging Western Australian writers, this short story anthology includes both fiction and creative nonfiction. A quirky and memorable collection, it centers on "who we are and what we want to be"—ideas that will resonate globally despite the regional origin of the contributors. The distinctive voices highlighted here present joy and pain in equal measure with humor and feeling.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• About the Editor
• Introduction
• The kid on the karaoke stage emptied his beer and cried. Men threw him a line
• The Man With The Moustache
• The Road To Katherine
• The Chrysoprase Plain
• The Wardrobe
• Divini
• Barcelona
• Chomsky And The Kultigator
• The Exhibition
• The Sound Of A Room
• Beautiful Negatives
• One Week Later
• My Scallywag Suit
• Little-Big Sister
• Saltwater Memories
• Snakes Don’t Die Until Sunset
• A Night In Hell
• I Sit Here – We Sat There
• Caterpillar Men
• Deeper Water
• Funeral Song
• The Pearl Divers
• The Underground River
• The Deluge
• You Get What You Get: Travels In The United Kingdom And The United States
• Rebyonak
• The Light Of Home
• The Island
• Notes On Contributors
• Acknowledgements