Matthew Southwell writes short fiction in Melbourne.

The drawer on the front page holds an object dear to each story. Choose one, and the story opens.

His stories have won the Mulga Bill Short Story Prize and the Apollo Bay Wordfest Short Story Competition, and been shortlisted for the Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award, the KSP Horror Story Competition and the Ninth Heaven Summer Short Story Competition. “The Time Machine” appeared in Meniscus Literary Journal.

Say hello if you’d like to read more of his work: hello@southwellwrites.com