Bonfire Night

A bonfire blazes in Outback Australia. Two men sit all night in its glow, commemorating their dead friend. He blew his head off with a shotgun. Bonfires burn across Lewes, England, commemorating Guy Fawkes Night. As crowds of revellers lurch through the streets, a boy stands teetering on the ledge of a bridge, waiting for the train to pass below. Two different lives, two different places, one story to tell.

Julian Breeds was born in Rye, Sussex, in 1953 and moved with his wife to Sydney in 1981, where they raised three children. He has written a novella, a book of short stories and skits for a street theatre group that he led on tours of Outback Australia. His quest for fun, mischief and adventures shows up in his stories, as does his propensity to pathos.