LOG 014 Short story
The Cartographer of Silence
A night operator at a listening station receives a map, transmitted line by line, of a place that has not been built yet. Her own house is on it.
Recovered 2026.09.18 Transmission length 02 MIN
Incoming transmission · origin 27.4698° S · 153.0251° E
Fiction and poetry, recovered from the quiet between stars.
Freq 1420.405 MHz Brisbane AEST
LOG 015 — The Apotheosis of Mankind◇LOG 014 — The Cartographer of Silence◇LOG 013 — The House on Kettle Creek Road◇LOG 012 — Saltwater Hymn for a Drowned Satellite◇LOG 011 — What the Moth Queen Kept◇LOG 010 — Static, Remembered◇LOG 009 — Rest Stop, Kilometre Zero◇LOG 008 — Lantern Fish◇LOG 007 — The Second Moon◇
Priority signal 27.48° S · 153.02° E Featured recovery · 2026.10.18
LOG 015 · story
The Apotheosis of Mankind
On a muggy night in South Brisbane, a woman who wishes she could change the future finds an old man with electric blue eyes hanging from her balcony. He has come to give her exactly what she asked for.
Decode transmission→ Transmission length 10 MIN
The archive · 9 entries catalogued
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LOG 013 Short story
The House on Kettle Creek Road
Every night at 3:03, the old Queenslander hums a single note. The new owner sets out to find its source, and finds that the house has been listening back.
Recovered 2026.08.02 Transmission length 02 MIN
LOG 012 Poem
Saltwater Hymn for a Drowned Satellite
A satellite falls into the Coral Sea and keeps broadcasting from the dark. A poem for the things that go on calling long after anyone is listening.
Recovered 2026.06.21 Transmission length 01 MIN
LOG 011 Short story
What the Moth Queen Kept
In the rainforest above the falls, a girl trades her name for a lantern. The moths who take it are very polite about the debt.
Recovered 2026.05.03 Transmission length 02 MIN
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Dispatches · field notes from the listening post
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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
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
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