'The One Book Many Brisbanes story competition aims to develop new and emerging Brisbane writers. The competition discovers literary works with a Brisbane theme. One Book Many Brisbanes 6 is an anthology of Brisbane stories from the 20 winners of the One Book Brisbanes 2010 story competition. ' (Publisher's blurb)
'Saturday night, summer of 1920. Mowbray Park is where the local lads go for a laugh, a beer, and a smoke. Eight-year-old Lucky sneaks out of bed to discover his brother and hero has taken a dare that could cost much more than his one shilling bet. ' (118)
'It’s the 1970s. Nadia Comăneci, the teenage gymnastic sensation, transfixes the world. In the outer suburbs south of Brisbane, life continues, sleepy and rural. But an acrobatic cow is on the loose, and the backhoes are heading for the farms. The city folk are moving south, and life will never be the same again.' (130)
At a Joint Effort gig in 1978 at Queensland Uni, latent antagonism between two young women explodes into dangerous life like the punk music of the scene – igniting, as the music could, a lash of life-changing clarity. (One Book Many Brisbanes 6: 138)
Sunday breakfast before dawn, then Warne hits the Bruce Highway from Maleny to Brisbane, where the great bells of St John’s Cathedral wait silently. The inanimate brass behemoths stir to life high up in the dark tower, creaking and moving as he and the other ringers take the strain, and ring the bells out over Brisbane. (148)
Three housemates rally together one night when Paul’s favourite book is returned along with an unexpected life-changing message. ' (168)
'As Max’s life grows more complicated, he escapes to the South Bank parklands with his sketchpad to take in the sights and the sun. Seeking shelter
from a sudden downpour he finds himself with a sympathetic spirit, the mercurial Stella, who asks nothing of him but may help him see more clearly in the fading light. ' (192)
