Barry Lee Thompson

fiction

  • Sirocco

    The wind whips, scrapes boxes and wrappers across the pavement and into the air, thrashes the treetops. It’s going to be hotter than it’s been for months, they say. Oppressively hot and windy, say the forecasters. You can tell they’ll be right this time, that things will turn out exactly the way they’ve said. It’s…

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  • The story behind ‘Phase’

    Here in the southern hemisphere, winter is beginning to give way to spring. Different flowers are blooming: while out walking, the heady scent of jasmine has hit me once or twice, drifting over a garden fence or down a laneway. And the sun is setting later, by about two minutes each night. And though I…

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  • The Writer

    I often used to sit with him while he worked on a story. I could say that all the while he was writing, but often he’d only be reading over something he’d already written. He took ages over the smallest detail. I’d be in the armchair by the window, reading a paperback novel I’d brought…

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  • Captured in a Moment…(Blink) | AWR 2023

    The latest American Writers Review is hot off the press and hitting the shelves as we speak, and I’m thrilled to have two stories included in this year’s edition: ‘Rightaway’ and ‘Why Do You Continue To Smoke When You Know It’s Bad For You?’. I love the artwork on the cover, and can’t wait to…

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  • ‘The Americans’ on Cover to Cover

    Back in March I published a blog post about ‘The Americans’, the fourth story in my collection Broken Rules and Other Stories. That blog post was featured on episode 472 of Cover to Cover on Vision Australia Radio on 12 May, along with a new reading of the story itself. Listen to the podcast here,…

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