‘Tohoku Dreaming’, originally published in Flightless, Footscray: Lonely Planet Publications, 2008.
The last job they gave me was book-ended by madness.
It began somewhere in the labyrinthine insanity of Tokyo. I was trying to sleep in a tiny apartment, sweat pouring off me in great sheets. I was on assignment for one of the major guidebook publishers [...]

Illustration by Nick Howlett, from Abaddon #2.

Originally published in Abaddon #2, Autumn 1999, under the pseudonym ‘Symon Brando’.

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I shrug off the clucking of my family and make my way to International Departures. With the ticketing formalities over, I slump at the bar and order drinks.
I sit and wait. To escape. A [...]