New Story published

Alex Hogan - Author

I had a story, In Your Room, published recently on LUSTSPIEL. This is a story about two students, set in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.

In your room

By Alex Hogan

(All illustrations by Pierre & Gilles, photo-manipulated by Bob Bienpensant.)

Nick asked if we should stay over at his house overnight. It was too late in the day and too far to go back to college in Bathurst, so we could stay for the night at his olds’ place in the Blue Mountains, and head off again the next day. I shrugged. So we did.

His mother is strange, and doesn’t like me.

“Don’t let the old bag get to you, Jason.”

I kept low; answering quietly and quickly, so I could say nothing wrong.

His dad is cool, and gave us a beer and played a game of euchre with us.

Night finally…

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