Paper Radio: FM: Fiction
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Antipodean fiction from Paper Radio — flights of fancy, the unreal/surreal, and wilful misinterpretations of the past, present and future.

Transcenmentalism

In some modern societies, the economy has achieved the status of a living, breathing human being. Often it is afforded greater protection and rights t...
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The Big Prawn

By some estimates, there are as many as 150 ‘big things’ strewn across Australia. There’s the Big Banana, the Big Merino and even the Big Magic Mushro...
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The Art of Art

Forget minimalism. There’s a new kid on the block: hypotheticalism. Grounded in complex ideas and elegant concepts, it’s a movement that’s challenging...
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Me and Run Like A Dream

In Me and Run Like A Dream, from Melbourne’s Elizabeth Reale, our protagonist gives us a candid first-hand account of the power of animal magnetism — ...
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Weather #3

The third and final episode of Thomasin Sleigh’s Weather trilogy. In a world plagued by the sudden absence of its weather forecasters, these unexplain...
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Weather #2

The second of Thomasin Sleigh’s three part Weather series. In a world mysteriously absent of its meteorologists, people begin to study details of the ...
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The Sound of Music

In a surreal pop renovation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical, The Sound Of Music fuses familiar and familial characters as it grapples wit...
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Weather #1

The first story in a series of three, Weather #1 chronicles a world in which all meteorologists have vanished suddenly and without explanation. See al...
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Calf Club 1989

Played out against a backdrop of pre-teen animal husbandry, Calf Club 1989 is the story of a sister and brother grappling with an unexpected familial ...
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The Drowning Man

A teacher’s classroom of restless, indifferent students becomes suddenly reliant on his seemingly worthless field study on drowning.
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