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Big Country Town
Four Poster Bed
Big Picture Window
If it Doesn't Rain Soon, Mate
Postman, I'm Waiting
The Bandstand
Shopping for Whitegoods
Watching as you Sleep
Like Our Fathers
Mending Fences
53 & Fragile
One Red Shoe
Paradise Motel

Acknowledgments, Explanations & Disclaimers
Frequent use of the first person is mostly a literary device.
Similarities to people living or dead are coincidental
(except for Like our Fathers, 53 & Fragile & Watching as you Sleep, which are nakedly true stories).
Paradise Motel, Shopping for Whitegoods & Four Poster Bed are partially-clad fantasies.
The Bandstand, Mate, Big Picture Window, Postman, I'm Waiting & One small Red Shoe
are well-dressed stories about things which could happen to anyone.

Notes on the Songs
Watching as You Sleep: Three Hours of Power is/was a popular music show on JJJ. Nirvana's lead singer, the late Kurt Cobain, was very big in the 1990s, as was hair colouring and piercings.
Paradise Motel: This fable makes a romantic reference to existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and his 1943 book, "Being and Nothingness".
If It Doesn't Rain Soon, Mate refers to Australian writer Bill Scott and his classic tale of the north, "Hey Rain", which is a counterpoint to mine. Thanks, Bill.
Big Country Town mentions Brisbane's first ethnic restaurant, Giardinetto - which still trades today; "The Creek" was a popular sand racing track in the 1970s). A mozzie coil is a slow-burning insecticide designed to repel mosquitos. Shorncliffe is still gorgeous.
One Small Red Shoe: When a pregnant woman is serving more than two years in jail, she is allowed to raise her baby inside. But when the child turns two, it is taken away.
Four-Poster Bed: (nothing like the traditional jig made popular by Dave Swarbrick). Jarrah is a beautiful West Australian hardwood. Most of Brisbane's riverfront woolstores have been converted to apartments.
Postman, I'm Waiting: This is one of my earlier songs and is included for all the parents whose children went searching for romance on the hippie trail and never kept in touch.
Mending Fences is one of two convincing narrative songs I have written about daughters I do not have (the other being, "Little Deeds"). Both stories are fictional.
Shopping for Whitegoods proved to be alarmingly prophetic, as we have indeed moved to the country and have a new fridge (which does not fit in the new kitchen).

All but one of these songs were written between 1998 and 2002.