The Australian suburbs are stranger than they seem – sun-bleached streets haunted by memory, cul?de?sacs edged with bushland that watches back, and homes where dangers lurk behind familiar fences. Between neighbours who know too much, houses that hum with memories best forgotten and bushfire smoke seeping into backyards, this collection of short fiction reveals the hidden anxieties that shape our domestic lives. Subversive, intimate and darkly imaginative, Common Places drags these quiet streets into the light, revealing a gothic noir landscape where the familiar turns unsettling – reminding us that the most terrifying things are often the ones that feel closest to home.
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Common Places
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Publisher
University of Queensland PresseBook ISBN
9780702273049
Year
2026Table of contents
- Cover
- Author Biography
- Title Page
- Imprint Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Early Summer
- Sandpiper
- Project Mercury
- Night Driving
- Between Here and Antarctica
- Oh
- After Tracie’s Car Crash
- Wish Fulfilment Pty Ltd
- Impermanence
- The Man Upstairs
- Myer Is Our Store
- The Year of the Birds
- Newbold
- A Serious Fence
- Acknowledgements
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