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Shifting Sands: Stories and Poems
What if the ocean’s gentle ebb and flow concealed countless untold stories?
Welcome to Shifting Sands, a vibrant anthology by the SeaQuills writing group, whose members live, meet, and write amidst the stunning coastal beauty of Wollongong, south of Sydney, Australia.
Prepare to be enchanted, amused, and quietly undone by this richly woven collection of voices. Here, a curious snake triggers an unexpected chain of chaos. An alien disrupts peace and protocol on a suburban bowling green. A lonely child reshapes a soldier’s life. What was it like to be an expat in newly independent Papua New Guinea, or a diplomat’s family in Asia?
Untethered to a single theme, Shifting Sands glides across from laugh-out-loud comedy to quiet elegy, from witty fables to memoirs steeped in lived history, introspective reflections, glimpses of resilience and absurdity, with interspersed verse that moves from lyrical to sonnets, to delicate Japanese forms and prose.
Within these pages, eight different voices speak with clarity and mischief, laying bare the raw, the wondrous, and the wonderfully unexpected.
Let the tide of Shifting Sands carry you where it will, with stories that linger like salt on the lips.
Welcome to Shifting Sands, a vibrant anthology by the SeaQuills writing group, whose members live, meet, and write amidst the stunning coastal beauty of Wollongong, south of Sydney, Australia.
Prepare to be enchanted, amused, and quietly undone by this richly woven collection of voices. Here, a curious snake triggers an unexpected chain of chaos. An alien disrupts peace and protocol on a suburban bowling green. A lonely child reshapes a soldier’s life. What was it like to be an expat in newly independent Papua New Guinea, or a diplomat’s family in Asia?
Untethered to a single theme, Shifting Sands glides across from laugh-out-loud comedy to quiet elegy, from witty fables to memoirs steeped in lived history, introspective reflections, glimpses of resilience and absurdity, with interspersed verse that moves from lyrical to sonnets, to delicate Japanese forms and prose.
Within these pages, eight different voices speak with clarity and mischief, laying bare the raw, the wondrous, and the wonderfully unexpected.
Let the tide of Shifting Sands carry you where it will, with stories that linger like salt on the lips.
187 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 31, 2025
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