The Kid On The Karaoke Stage And Other Stories

The Kid on the Karaoke Stage & Other Stories

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.

KID ON THE KARAOKE STAGE & OTHER STORIES.

The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and Other Stories

'This whole collection is brimming with vibrant and original writing.' - Brenda Walker 28 life-changing stories about who we are, and what we want to be. Some of us just blow with the breeze, and some of us feel every wind-shift. Some of us are never blown the same way twice, and some of us are never the same way wherever we're blown -Glen Hunting When Satan appears in the story, he looks a hell of a lot like my dad. - Goldie Goldbloom What he hears, other would call silence. The absence of definable noise. But there is no such thing as silence. - Amanda Curtin I run backwards all the way up the street watching the dog get closer and closer. Behind the dog is the man with the moustache and now he has a fish in his hands. - Jon Doust Even from here, through the silver of the doorway, the youngest brother can see the pink underside of the dark-skinned feet, as they lift and replace themselves in the brown-grey dust. - Peter Docker