922
8:08PM, 29 Dec 07
Sydney
 hear the clicking
SOURCE : Kimi Yoshino, 'War-battered city rolls out red carpet for film festival', LA Times in Sydney Morning Herald online, 29/12/07. 
The table, piled with clock radios, bakes in the afternoon sun. It lies just beyond the shade of the verandah, where two women, with matching black ponytails, sit and slowly peel and eat lychees. I ask them how much the clock radios are...  [more]
AUTHOR : Vanessa Berry
 

849
6:09PM, 17 Oct 07
Sydney
 his arrival was delayed
SOURCE : AFP, 'Putin braves "plot" for Tehran talks', The Australian online, 17/10/07. 
He could be under the wheels of a bus, the passengers inside it fighting with their curiosity whether or not to look out the window. There are grim-faced emergency service people...  [more]
AUTHOR : Vanessa Berry
 

659
5:39PM, 10 Apr 07
Sydney
 berated for his youth
SOURCE : 'Female sailor was forced to strip', AFP, The Guardian in Sydney Morning Herald online, 10/04/07. 
If we were shipwrecked, I know I’d be the one to get eaten so the rest of the group could survive. Looking around the tea room, it was obvious. I am the fattest, and although I’m the youngest, I can’t imagine any of the others offering themselves as a sacrifice.  [more]
AUTHOR : Vanessa Berry
 

592
8:00PM, 2 Feb 07
Sydney
 hope is not a strategy
SOURCE : Bob Deans, 'Take your quarrels elsewhere, Bush told', Cox News, Washington Post, AFP in Sydney Morning Herald online, 02/02/07. 
I open my mail after coming home from work and the first envelope holds a letter that begins with: “This is not a chain letter…”  [more]
AUTHOR : Vanessa Berry
 

515
7:38PM, 17 Nov 06
Sydney
 reached the air slicker
SOURCE : Mark Lawson, 'Slick start for channel despite Arab bias', Guardian News & Media in Sydney Morning Herald online, 17/11/06. 
Frightening how the rest of the world floats away when we drive around the suburbs, and how it’s always night. Night makes us timeless, dissolves our histories so all we have are words.
“You’re so funny,” he says. “The funniest girl I’ve ever met.”...  [more]
AUTHOR : Vanessa Berry
 

443
7:36PM, 6 Sep 06
London
 it doesn't mean much
SOURCE : Greg Myre, 'Security force joins Palestinian strike over pay', New York Times in International Herald Tribune online, 06/09/06. 
In the doctor’s waiting room, I read the spine of a National Geographic: Pandas. US Coasts. Rome’s Basement. Dance across America. Human Body. Blackbeard...  [more]
AUTHOR : Vanessa Berry
 

394
9:07PM, 19 Jul 06
London
 theater of the day
SOURCE : Elaine Sciolino, 'Iran backs Hezbollah in Lebanon', New York Times in International Herald Tribune online, 19/07/06. 
I knew the ceiling as I knew a body that lay beside me constantly, pressed close so I could feel its every contour. I watched the light pass over the cracks in the plaster so often that I could determine the time by the shadows...  [more]
AUTHOR : Vanessa Berry
 

340
4:56PM, 26 May 06
Sydney
 smiling genially
SOURCE : John Burns, 'Saddam's former envoy speaks up for his old boss', New York Times in The Age online, 26/05/06. 
Lights flash amber and the cars don’t stop. For the first time in her life she wishes the police were around: an officer planted in the centre of the intersection, cars obediently halting at the flick of a white glove...  [more]
AUTHOR : Vanessa Berry