13 – Heat Delirium – excerpt (20 min read)

The heat has sapped those in green of the will to follow orders and those in blue of the ability to give them gently.

2008 On’ya Sonja – excerpt

The man on the table barely moved as I gripped the piercing needle firm between my latex-clad fingers, breathed in, out, and then drove it through the pinch of his skin I held between my fingers.

1997 – One Star Caravan Park – an excerpt from S&L

The date on the warrant isn’t a mistake. It was from 1997 but was reissued when the system went computerised between 1999 and 2003. The crime I was arrested for had happened back in 1996 and I’d received a sentence of fifteen months’ weekend detention. I rocked along to five months’ worth when my addiction got out of control.

Sonja’s Look – excerpt from S+L

I remember standing in a dungeon with a slave grovelling near my feet. His shoulders were hunched down and his face took on a look, half worship, half terror, that I remember seeing many times on my stepfather’s face.

Emus Book Raid – excerpt

This is an excerpt from Snakes and Ladders. Book is currently in development with Affirm Press. Follow Angela J Williams on Facebook for more excerpts and news on publication. 44 – Emus Book Raid On Tuesday morning, forty-four days in, the screws are late coming to unlock us. As the time for people to start reporting for […]

Now/then – characters – Excerpt

This is an excerpt from Snakes and Ladders. Book is currently in development with Affirm Press. Follow Angela J Williams on Facebook for more excerpts and news on publication. Now / then – Characters You probably want to know about the person getting arrested, so let’s take a minute out with the here and now me to […]

Draft: ECT Brain thinks about my relationship with ‘exercise’

(Yes, roller derby peeps, perfect timing for TGSS. Non-derby peeps, forgive my draft. Links and pics soon.) Twenty-four hours ago I would have scrolled past this topic, however just yesterday I had some very relevant realisations. This one comes with a content warning re: invasive psychiatry Context: I am 41 years old, have complex PTSD […]

Varuna Affirm Press Mentorship – Friday morning

Writing memoir is an intensive process of self-examination, conducted for the most part in solitude. So winning the Affirm Press Mentorship, which included living with two editors for five days, was both exhilarating and terrifying. For weeks leading up to the residency I’ve been asking the same rhetorical questions: How do you live with the […]