A story that didn't make it into the book
Some stories are written, loved, and then quietly set aside. This one deserved somewhere to land, so I've filed it in the archive as LOG 015.
Archive Notes 01 MIN
Dispatches · the blog
Dispatches
Notes sent back from the listening post: on craft, on weather, on the strange work of writing things down before they fade.
On listening for things that aren't there
Most of my stories start as a sound I can't place. A note on attention, patience, and the discipline of hearing nothing for a very long time.
Craft 01 MIN
Notes from the wet season
Rain on a tin roof for nine days straight. What a Queensland wet season does to time, sleep, and the stories that grow in the damp.
Field Notes 01 MIN
Why I keep a logbook instead of a diary
A diary asks how you feel. A logbook asks what you observed. On the quiet usefulness of recording the world like a night-shift operator.
Process 01 MIN
First transmission
Opening the channel. What this archive is, why it is shaped like a listening station, and what you'll find in it.
Field Notes 01 MIN