"Summer
Anniversary"
- "for 365 pain-filled days he had been alone..."
- prizewinner in "The Advertiser" state-wide short story competition
"Kip"
- "...for this was Australia and Kip Carrington had arrived..."
- finalist in the WriteSpot Spring 2001 short story competition
"Dark
Light"
- the dog was a Labrador of perfect colour - well 'Almost'.
"Walkabout
Country"
- set in the "top end" of Australia.
"Humbug
Scrub"
- in memory of Robert Morgan.
"Good,
golly - gosh"
- "Gone fishin'!"
"Beyonya"
- "Woman in the bar, lads."
"Becoming
a blockie"
- tips from experience on rural development and building on country
blocks. Read Chas'
interview for "Mind Like Water", June 2003.
This interview copyright
Mind Like Water, Inc. http://www.mindlikewater.com
| 
"The Born
Again Australian" is a yarn about life in Australia - funny, sad, up,
down, heart-warming and tragic.
Read excerpts
and the first
chapter of "The Born Again Australian"
 
"Silica"
- a
rotting body is found in a dugout in Coober Pedy, South Australia.
Although the miner's possessions and valuable opal have been stolen,
his
sudden death is treated as an accident until an anoymous letter
questions the Coroner's verdict.
Read the first
chapter of "Silica"
Email Chas to say "owyergoin" |
by John Evan Adlard 1973
(then aged 85),
transcribed by Chas Adlard.
My father John Evan Adlard donated his WW1 diary to the Australian War
Memorial. It is a detailed account of this ghastly war
and the original also contains some of his drawings.
Reference:
Australian War Memorial
Private Records Collection
Accession No: 2DRL/0020.
I wish to
dedicate this short
story
to my
father, John Evan Adlard, who fought gallantly for his country during
World War One. As a source of research I depended greatly upon his
diaries that are now the property of the Australian War Memorial in
Canberra.
Although the story is largely a work of fiction I have
unashamedly shadowed his footsteps during this hideous conflict. |
All
writing copyright Chas Adlard 2008
Chas'
publicity and artwork courtesy of Janene
Vine Web Design
"The Born Again Australian" cover painting courtesy of Heather Riley,
Artist, Northern Territory, Australia |
