Sunday Short: Brisbane by Josephine Rowe

And what I’ll remember of this time is split vinyl and continental breakfasts, fights about who gets the passenger seat, a wallaby cracked over the head with the jack handle and none of us talking till Lismore even though we know she’s done the right thing.

Josephine Rowe is an Australian flash fiction writer with such an awesome, unique voice. I had the pleasure of seeing her read last year at Emerging Writers Festival and it's pretty amazing seeing the progress she's made career-wise since. I mean, publication in The Paris Review is pretty darn impressive. And well-deserved too. Rowe has such a sublime way of writing and capturing small moments with big implications. Her short short story, 'Brisbane', is a near perfect example of this.

You can read 'Brisbane' (along with two other shorts) over on The Paris Review website.