Tall And True Short Reads Podcast
1) Nick's Helper
The job offer notification pops up on my phone early on Christmas Eve. It's a short-term role helping with overnight deliveries. The regular delivery driver has hurt his back and needs an offsider for...Show More
2) The Nine Lives of Leo Roberts — Two: A Fast Car — Part Three
Bernie sat by himself on the far side of the emergency department waiting room. Elsie and Rita were sitting together, near the doors to the operating theatres. Elsie was sobbing, and Bernie wanted to ...Show More
3) The Nine Lives of Leo Roberts — Two: A Fast Car — Part Two
Leo sat in sullen silence in the front passenger seat, staring out the windscreen, as Bernie’s car strained, towing his secondhand car on a hired trailer up the hills to the abandoned quarry. Bernie h...Show More
4) The Nine Lives of Leo Roberts — Two: A Fast Car — Part One
Elsie thought it unlikely Leo would tell her the truth about the unregistered secondhand car he’d asked family friend Bernie to tow to the abandoned quarry. But she still pressed her sixteen-year-old ...Show More
5) A Heart-Shaped Teal Tattoo
In November 2024, I met with the Volunteer Coordinator for my local MP, Allegra Spender, who asked if I'd help with the 2025 Federal Election campaign. I'd campaigned for Allegra in 2022 and assisted ...Show More
6) The Nine Lives of Leo Roberts — One: Rock Fishing
Uncle Bernie parked his car alongside the dunes behind the rock fishing beach. Nursing a bucket in the back seat, Leo had vomited several times during the drive, and the last bumpy section on the off-...Show More
7) The Nine Lives of Leo Roberts — Prologue: The Clinic
The terrace house door creaks open, and the women sitting in the converted front room glance at the newcomers: another nervous-looking young woman in her late teens or early twenties and an older woma...Show More
8) Introducing Season Five
Most episodes from the past four seasons of Tall And True Short Reads are standalone, but I've also released multipart episodes for longer short stories. For Season Five, I'm doing something different...Show More
9) Kris Kringle - Xmas 2024
In October 2024, I released Episode 100 of Tall And True Short Reads, Twin Souls in the Universe, marking the end of Season Four of my storytelling podcast, which I launched in September 2020. Since t...Show More
10) Twin Souls in the Universe
If you thought about it, the process for selecting the first matter transference test pilot was archaic, although Mae considered it a lucky omen when she drew the Blue 15 raffle ticket. Blue, not pink...Show More