Michael James graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tasmania in 2002, majoring in philosophy and French. He has published in Overland Journal, époque e-zine and The Suburban Review and produced several podcasts, including Australia's only rollerblading podcast—Mad Beef Rollerblading Podcast. He is currently revising his third manuscript: a stream-of-six-year-old-consciousness novella set at the time of Halley's Comet's last visit in 1986. Michael loves cooking; is a passionate reader of fiction and non-fiction; and although in his forties, is still learning new tricks in the halfpipe on his rollerblades.
The sun came in the windows midmorning—about 10am in summer—and then by midday it was overhead, leaking light down on that solitary house in the valley, making the surface tension on the dewdrops break and flow into pools of damp. You didn’t know if it was better to keep the lights on during the…
