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Craving Candy: Chapter 1
Craving Candy: Chapter 13
“What the hell are you doing here!?” Was the reaction she was expecting. Something explosive, something confrontational. Something that spoke to the arrogant, abusive bully she had now met twice. Instead, the man she now knew as Daniel Park simply looked lost, as though a piece of someone else’s jigsaw had turned up in his…
Craving Candy: Chapter 12
The cook was a tiny wiry platinum blonde who shot Laura a fierce look as she walked into the kitchen before softening slightly at her expression. It was 6:30am and she was busy taking fresh pastries out of the oven and preparing a platter of fruit and yoghurt. There was also cereal, juice and toast.…
Craving Candy: Chapter 11
Laura was panicking. But privately. On the outside, she was determined to be sanguine, even confident, about the new job and the fact that the employment contract almost read as if she was bonding herself into service. She had told her family that she had a new job and was deferring Uni but hadn’t found…
Craving Candy: Chapter 10
Laura was many things, as all people are. But she hadn’t realised how much of herself was bound up in the Australian myth of egalitarianism until she stepped through the colonnaded entrance of the palatial Ascot home she had been escorted to in an expensive, yet discreetly classy, limousine. Part of her really had believed…
Craving Candy: Chapter 9A
Family feuds were funny things, Cynthia thought as she sat in her car looking at Lolly in the cafe having the desired breakdown. You thought you were outside of them, oblivious to them. That they were products of a distant, less civilised era. That they’d been swept away in the egalitarian banality of suburbia, left…
Craving Candy: Chapter 9
“I’m sorry, Lolly. You’re fired.” Laura looked at Phil for a moment unable to process what she was hearing. She’d come into the club because Phil wanted to talk to her. She didn’t know what she’d been expecting but it wasn’t this. “I don’t understand,” she said finally, “Is this about the beer? Because you…
Craving Candy: Chapter 8
By the time Lolly heard the crunching sound of metal hitting metal, the accident had already happened ten minutes ago. At least that’s how it felt. She’d paused in the carpark, her indicator on as she prepared to manoeuvre her car into the newly-vacant space when she saw, out of the corner of her eye,…
Craving Candy: Chapter 7
“A Margarita, a lychee martini and a Pisco Sour, please,” the overdressed office worker asked her, with only a slight slur in her lightly accented voice. When Phil had asked her to take some shifts, she had assumed he was opening the moshpit cesspool that was his downtown venue. She was pleasantly surprised when she…
Craving Candy: Chapter 6
Laura didn’t have to get up early the next morning so of course she found herself wide awake and staring at the ceiling. As the light drifted through her blinds and began to spread like molten gold through her tiny student apartment she turned to look at one wall to her left, the desk and…
Craving Candy: Chapter 5
A woman came into the 7-Eleven and Laura slid her study notes surreptitiously under the till. If there were no customers, she should be cleaning. At least according to her boss, “There is never nothing to do, Chen!” she heard his aggressive voice booming in her head. But if Laura didn’t study during her evening…
Craving Candy: Chapter 4
The dim lights on the clock radio of her old Corolla flicked over to 4:30am as Laura Chen slid into the carpark of the suburban service station she opened on the weekends. Dawn was close. It was nearly summer and the birds celebrated the coming day with an exuberant and almost inappropriate joy. As Laura…
Craving Candy: Chapter 3
Sometimes she wondered what had drawn her to Korean dramas (other than her desire to connect with her new mother-in-law to be). A woman who never let her obligations interfere with the latest episode of her drama, preferring the sweeping Sageuks and modern Makjangs to the lower-key romcoms. It was the one sliver of kinship…
Craving Candy: Chapter 2
Her grandmother had loved ‘her stories’. Some of the happiest times in her childhood were sitting on the lumpy uncomfortable couch beside her wiry mother’s mother; a woman who never seemed to be still unless her shows were on. A tiny woman whose couch barely registered her bird-like presence. As her grandmother had aged, she…
Craving Candy: Chapter 1
After all these years of hiding it, who knew it would be her guilty pleasure that would prove so useful. It had been a long day, a tiring day. The kind of day that would not be long or tiring if she didn’t have the frustration of dealing with her family.She’d tried to relax by…
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