Welcome to the archives, the links below will take you to selected works of mine from the last few years. Much of my work has already been published in The Box, Herald Sun, Aussie Post, Inkshed, The Australian Jodie Foster Web Pages. Other links will take you to short stories that I hope to submit in the next few months as well as excerpts from my current novels. These excerpts will be changed on a monthly basis so if you’ve missed out on one email me and let me know. The excerpts will provide a brief review of the previous weeks excerpt as well as details on how to obtain them. Watch out for my serial coming up early January, this will be also be a monthly feature to the site and published exclusively online.
Enjoy!
Alastair Rosie
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Creation Chronicle is an epic poem based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and is told from a female perspective, it was published in Divan.
The Affair was my first published piece and talks about, well, an affair, first published in Inkshed 7. (Available from Dept. Professional Writing Box Hill Institute 1000 Whitehorse Rd. Box Hill Vic. 3121 Australia).
The Roundabout is a touching tale about being caught up in the cobwebs of life. One of its most unusual features is the fact that the protagonist is ‘genderless.’ It is part of my upcoming novel Heritage Restored.
Aysha’s Story is an excerpt from my new novel The legend of Yohanna which is still on the drawing board.
Waiting to Die is yet to see the light of day on the printed page. It is a poignant representation of the hopelessness pervading our daily lives.
The Dancer is one woman's struggle to reclaim her life in the aftermath of divorce; a moving tribute to the cycles of death and rebirth.
The Trucker was a whole lot of fun to write and is basically what happens when my imagination runs away with itself.
So You Want to be a Feature Writer? is a new piece aimed at those who want to write feature articles for the print media. It also includes links to sample query letters.
Lucky You’re With tells of my experiences as a budding mechanic some years ago, published in The Box.
The Acting Bug talks about my acting ambitions, which were a bit of an anticlimax but loads of fun; published in The Box.
Home on the Web was first published in the Herald Sun and was my first paying piece, this is undergoing a major revamp before being published on this site.
Devonshire for Two was one of those pieces that looks promising but suffers rejection until at last it is shelved in the hopes of revival one day and here it is. If you’re ever in Melbourne, look these places up!
Melbourne’s Mystic East was another piece that was never published. In the course of writing you have to swallow some bitter pills.
Already I'm so Lonesome I Could Die... The dos and don'ts when it comes to our four legged friends this millennium season, don't forget that pets are family too! (Published on Boxplanet now, follow the above link)
The Age of Unreason was an essay on Mary Shelley'sFrankenstein was my final essay and while it is complete, it will be expanded in the near future to include comments on the movie Contact.
Tolkien's The Hobbit is another departure into fantasy, I hope to do more with this and Tolkien's other works.
My Literature Analysis Journal is a chonicle of my journey through the classics in one year if that's at all possible!
A brief analysis of Siddhartha is just
what you might imagine, a brief analysis of this fascinating little book.
Coming soon, watch this space for film and book reviews.
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