Deborah Kalin: 5 books

FIRST PUBLISHED IN ANDROMEDA SPACEWAYS MAGAZINE:This is not the Melbourne you think you know.It is a city afraid of silence, one of enforced temperament treatments and rigid disposition management. It is the home of Tacey Micah, reticent in hiding.And her file's just been flagged.

"There is a precise moment in which you realise you are an abortifacient. This is the reason for the butterflies."

FIRST PUBLISHED IN POSTSCRIPTS MAGAZINE #17: "Stories of children lost to the theriomorphs were like the ammonite fossils: everyone had their own." Alessia Kinshin is an archaeological anthropologist at the University of New Persia, a city surrounded by salt pans and beset...

The challenge: write a 200-word story inspired by the line "This corpse is full of birds".This is my result.Download a copy for yourself to keep, or read the story via my website: http://deborahkalin.com/blog/2015/01/this-corpse-is-full-of-birds/

Tulliæn spans a fractured mountaintop, where the locals lie and the tourists come to die. Try the honey. Briskwater crouches deep in the shadow of a dam wall. Ignore the weight of the water hanging overhead, and the little dead girl wandering the streets. Off with you, while you still can. In...