The Daisy Chain Theory of the Universe first read at Kimbos on 16/7/90.
Published in Rescuing Beached Mondays.
Not a Bad Drop first read at Kimbos on 12/8/90
A Birthday Gift first read at Kimbos on 22/10/90
Exmas first read at Kimbos on 3/12/90. Published in The Canberra
Times on 23/12/00
Ratings War first read at Kimbos on 25/2/91
Medisave first read at Kimbos on 25/3/91. Published in ACTCOSS
Newsletter, April 1991
Genes first read at Kimbos on 1/7/91
Dressing Up first read at Tilleys in April 1992
Permanent Residence first read at Tilleys on 31/5/92
Steamed Up first read at Tilleys on 14/6/92. This story was written in
honour of the expresso machine at Tilleys. The machine obliged by going off at
exactly the right moment.
Catnap first read at Tilleys in July 1992
The Big Spill first read at Dorettes on 9/5/93
Personal Assistance first read at Dorettes on 13/6/93
Trade In first read at Dorettes on 11/7/93
Does it Take After Its Father? first read at Dorettes on 12/9/93.
Published in The Canberra Times on 30/12/00.
On Course first read at Dorettes on 9/1/94
Lost Love first read at Dorettes on 13/2/94. Published in Off the
Edge.
Generation Gulf first read at Dorettes on 1/3/94
Bulk Learning first read at Dorettes on 5/4/94
Dead Heat first read at Dorettes on 10/7/94
Playing for Keeps first read at Dorettes late 1994
Party Time first read at Dorettes on 7/5/95
A Bit of a Waste first read at PEN reading Protesting the Testing
at Tilleys on 3/10/95. Published in PEN Anthology Protesting the Testing.
Jet Lag first read at Moois on 16/4/96
Corporate Body first read, September 2009
Winning Ways published in The Workers Paradise, 2007
Up the Creek first read, September 2010.
Corporate Body first read 29/10/09
Most of these stories were read on Canberra Stereo Public Radio (now Arstsound FM) in 19936.
The books referred to above are:
Writers at Kimbos, Rescuing Beached Mondays (Canberra: Writers at Kimbos,
1990)
Canberra Performance Poets, Off the Edge (Canberra: Boris Books, 1995)
Protesting the Testing: Canberra writers speak out against nuclear testing in
the Pacific (Canberra: PEN (ACT) and Left Book Club (ACT), 1995)
The Workers Paradise, ed. Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans (Perth: Ticonderoga
Publications, 2007)
The venues where stories were read were:
Kimbos a small bar in Philip, Canberra. There were set themes which
inspiredsome of the early stories.
Dorettes a bar and restaurant in Civic, Canberra
Tilleys a large bar with a stage and microphone, Lyneham, Canberra
Mooi a small restaurant in Dickson, Canberra
Wig and Pen a pub in Civic, Canberra
Meetings of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, ACT Branch
Various Private Parties (some large)