short story Archives - Graham Lawrence

Drinking Beer with a Gunman in a Temple at a Funeral

Graham Lawrence — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:02:38 +0000

As I walked through the temple to the kitchen area where the women were gathered preparing the food for the evening offering and meal on the third and final day of my mother-in-laws funeral rites, I noticed uncle Nim sat on the floor of the kitchen with two other men. One in his usual farming […]

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Hope

Graham Lawrence — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 04:18:22 +0000

1970s Tony was someone I knew at school. He was not what you may describe as a friend; he was not what you may describe as an enemy or even worse a nonentity. He was someone who was maybe friends of others in the group in which I mixed. He was someone who was always […]

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The End

Graham Lawrence — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 04:28:06 +0000

I can’t remember if it was Hannington Point or… Whatever. But I remember clearly the Vic had an all day licence and the spring weather, or was it summer or autumn or winter, was warm clear and fine. It was good to be sitting on the small grass verge outside the Vic drinking beer so […]

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There is a Light that Never Goes Out

Graham Lawrence — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 03:57:40 +0000

–Santa, the Man Mountain and a bottle of water called Virgin– Today in the cold light of day, I saw Santa coming out of our building. I never knew he lived there. His white beard and white hair lining his ruddy face, but today unlike other days when I saw him in the coffee shop […]

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The Face

Graham Lawrence — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:05:39 +0000

Andy and I sat around a small table close to the fire or fake fire in the large lounge of the George surrounded by people of all ages and backgrounds. We were quiet and enjoying the occasional memory of school or occasional exchange of work story or comment on the football. It was a warm […]

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Luck

Graham Lawrence — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 04:09:21 +0000

Perpetual good or bad luck is something that seems to follow some people you meet on the traveler or expat circuit. It is not something all or even many possess, but a few seem to just be gifted or cursed with it. Bernard was not a lucky man. Maybe not as unlucky as British Steve, […]

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Betty / Beauty

Graham Lawrence — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:43:59 +0000

The freshly cut coriander roots smelt wonderful infusing the whole house with their virgin freshness as they awaited becoming some addition to a preplanned dish, and by doing so losing the extent of their odour, losing their power to totally overwhelm and becalm, losing their power to demand to be noticed but adding a more […]

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Sweeping Up

Graham Lawrence — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:24:16 +0000

It is almost two years now, and I suppose it is time to record the actual true events before they fade or my memory decides to exclude such things that don’t fit with preconceived and taught ideas typical of someone raised in the rational and heartless late 60’s and 70’s. It also seems fitting as I sit […]

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Lita

Graham Lawrence — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 04:33:29 +0000

… there she was again. Maybe thirty meters in front and about to round the corner. Sudden surge forward. I couldn’t miss her this time. And yet there she was at the next corner about to take a right still thirty meters ahead. I was determined this time I would get level. A sprint and […]

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Gerry the Deminer

Graham Lawrence — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 04:31:05 +0000

Gerry had issues; Gerry was haunted. Neither were going to ever go away. What actually caused the issues or haunting would never ever be known by anyone except Gerry. It is the natural way of some things. I was in a bar, in Jomtien, but to be honest it does not really matter where that […]

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