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Issue Details: First known date: 1995... no. 50 1995 of Australian Short Stories est. 1982 Australian Short Stories
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Notes

  • Dedication: This issue of Australian Short Stories is dedicated to the readers and writers of Australia.
  • Cover painting by Lyn Hovey
  • Contents indexed selectively.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1995 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Editorial, Bruce Pascoe , single work column (p. 4-5)
Bridecake, Gillian Mears , single work short story (p. 7-12)
Windsong, Sue Hancock , single work short story (p. 13-16)
Did She Not Have Autumn, Anson Cameron , single work short story (p. 17-25)
Bidin' Time, Linley Hindmarsh , single work short story (p. 26-34)
Note: Illustrated by the author.
The Ferret, H. J. Treasure , single work short story (p. 35-40)
Ticking, Matthew Condon , single work short story (p. 41-45)
Djamba - Plague, Mudrooroo , single work short story (p. 46-49)
The Fifth Brother, Graham Sheil , single work short story (p. 50-69)
Homecoming : Margaret's Story, Margaret Apma Hayes , single work autobiography (p. 70-77)
Note: Illustrated with a portrait of the author.
Lonely : Kathy's Story, Kathy Travis , single work autobiography (p. 78-81)
Moonstruck, Judy Duffy , single work short story (p. 85-92)
Burnt Umber (after T S Eliot's Burnt Norton), Robin Walton , single work short story (p. 93-106)
Dog Meeting, Ba Phillipps , single work short story (p. 107-112)
The Port Augusta Story, Barry Dickins , single work short story (p. 113-117)
Note: Illustrated by the author.
Peeping Tom, Yellow Houses, Judith Lukin-Amundsen , single work short story (p. 118-123)
Tide, David Whish-Wilson , single work short story (p. 124-130)
Taniwha, Tony Reeder , single work short story (p. 131-136)
The Golden Moment, Carmel Bird , single work short story

THE GOLDEN MOMENT The story of the golden moment is a story about suburban Australia in the nineteen fifties. The street in which the story takes place is often called ‘the golden mile’ because so many wealthy bankers and barristers and surgeons have for generations lived there in grandeur and comfort with their beautiful wives and happy families. Almost all of these families have very white skins indeed, and are by religion Christians (of the Protestant kind). The rare Jewish or Roman Catholic family is treated with superb tolerance and charity, but it is understood that such families are darkened by a blight too powerful and mysterious to name.

The houses themselves bear the names they were given by the original inhabitants and some of these names reflect a nostalgia for places far away, others expressing a hope in the youthful country of Australia. The style of architecture is labelled ‘Federation’ in recognition of the modern birth of the country itself. The trees and flowers are by and large European, and the branches of the oaks and elms that line the street on one side almost touch those on the other, so that in summer a magical green tunnel arches above the traffic, and people from less beautiful suburbs drive along here just to marvel at the trees along the golden mile. Even ordinary traffic seems to move sedately along the grandest section of the road.

A golden moment is that time of the afternoon photographers love, when the light of day bathes the world in one last glow of radiance, when Paradise is promised, when everything stands still at the instant between the darkness and the light, when fairies and goblins and other spirits good and bad may be revealed.
The golden moment on the golden mile is one of nature’s marvels.

(Source: author's website)

(p. 137-144)
Lovers on Holiday, Lyn Hughes , single work short story (p. 145-149)

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