Jamie Forbes
Bio
I'm an award winning playwright and have written for radio, television and film. I've had several short stories and articles published and also work as a musician and actor. Recently, I finished my first novel, Colderwood.
Stories (3)
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You've Got To Know The River
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. Muck-smudged glass glowed brown and something under the crooked front verandah shifted nervously. From inside came the sound of rusted bed springs giving up a long held weight. A family of wild pigs, rooting in the deep, wet mulch at the base of the ancient red gums that surrounded the cabin, shrieked and bolted for the the river.
By Jamie Forbes4 years ago in Horror
The life of a bird
one chiya She woke up standing by her bed, sure that someone had just said her name, assuming it was time to get ready for school. There had been some other sound, too, some soft burst of activity. Chiya wondered if she was actually still asleep, felt unreal and floaty. She cast about for her clock, looking not just for the time, but an anchor to the world. Back by her bed, Mickey's Mouse's fat, glow-in-the-dark gloves, glowing in the dark, pointed out 3.33.
By Jamie Forbes4 years ago in Fiction
The Teppes
On the Far South Coast a pissy, fickle spring held on until the seventeenth day of what was supposed to be summer, when a storm came. A ripsnorter. An east coast low coiled itself up out of nowhere and tried to heave the ocean ashore. 368 millimetres of rain fell on Kialla, a seaside town that was popular with tourists when there were such a thing, before COVID. All that rain fell between 1pm and midnight. The sea churned, turned Kialla Beach inside out. A flûte, not seen by anyone who cared to report it after sailing out of Botany Bay two hundred and thirty years ago, saw the sun and gave up its ghosts.
By Jamie Forbes4 years ago in Horror
