Peter Bishop’s stories have won: The Australasian Short Story Award, The Banjo Paterson Literary Award The Fellowship of Australian Writers short Literary Competition The E J Brady Short Short Story Award, ...

Last year we came back to live in the house where I grew up, an old sprawling house on  black soil flats the far side of Halls Creek. Down where it joins the Goulburn the creek is slow and fat, but up in the hills it can be so wild and muddy nothing can cross it, or trickling clear, or dry – like it is now. It was dry all through The War – when I was a very...