Barry Lee Thompson

fiction

  • Fisher Girls | Island

    One of my short stories is published in Island today. You can read ‘Fisher Girls’ here. I hope you like it. While you’re there, why not check out some of the other content. Since our beginnings in 1979 (as The Tasmanian Review), Island’s mission has remained the same: to produce a magazine with a national

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  • Publication anniversary

    Wednesday this week marked one year from the release of Broken Rules and Other Stories. How time flies. Seems only yesterday that I was seeing cheery signs in the frolicking of a dolphin in the sunny waters of the Maribyrnong River on the morning of publication day. And now here we are in spring again.

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  • Gone

    One morning he set off on his walk, but when he reached the point where he usually turns back and heads for home, he kept on going. For hours and hours, on he went, and all the while behind him the city was diminishing. Days later, when he remembered to glance back, the skyline had

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  • Nets

    She puts on one of her favourites. She likes it very much, this song. So much that she listens to it every day. Every single morning, the same song, just to start things off. She sways at her window, in front of the nets. People go by, on the street, and they look towards the

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  • Coming up …

    This Friday I’ll be chatting about Broken Rules and Other Stories with Paul J Laverty on The Quiet Carriage. The Quiet Carriage is a dedicated literature show all about books and authors, on MAINfm out of Castlemaine. You can listen live on the radio or online on Friday 1:00pm till 2:00pm, and the program will

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