Barry Lee Thompson

Barry Lee Thompson

  • The Birthday | Vision Australia Radio

    My short story The Birthday was read recently on Vision Australia Radio’s weekly Cover To Cover literary program. The podcast of that week’s program is available here: https://varadio.podbean.com/e/cover-to-cover-episode-232-5th-october-2018/ Cover To Cover is produced and presented by Tim McQueen. The Birthday was read by Mike Cannon.

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  • The Birthday | a short story on Vision Australia Radio

    “Next to the milk carton is the cake he bought last night from Patrick’s Patisserie. He went in last thing, twenty minutes before closing. The cakes are cheaper at the end of the day. The man that works there, who he’s always imagined may well be Patrick himself, was reading the newspaper, a crinkled morning

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  • Lit on a Winter Afternoon

    Originally posted on Elwood Writers: At the end of August, Elwood Writers held a literary soiree in the community room at St Kilda Library in Melbourne. The event provided an opportunity for us to present a curated program of short readings from our own work, and included fiction, memoir, and poetry. Duo con Brio, with…

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  • Barry’s Adelaide reflections

    Originally posted on Elwood Writers: The festival experience in Adelaide becomes richer with each visit. This year, I felt an initial restlessness during the events. I wanted to be away from the authors talking about their work, and to get in front of my own writing. To put my hands inside my manuscript and pull…

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  • Maskers

    He detected for the first time a delicate perfume, hers, a hint of white flowers, and something else, something suggesting softness and marshmallow, and then it was gone, absorbed in the incense burning from another part of the building.

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