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My new website, Generation End, is nearly finished. Stay tuned. en Mon, 07 May 2012 22:06:00 GMT Mon, 07 May 2012 22:06:00 GMT info@alwayseighteen.com info@alwayseighteen.com http://www.alwayseighteen.com/images/always-eighteen-brisbane-writer-blog.jpg http://www.alwayseighteen.com/ http://www.alwayseighteen.com/a-date-with-an-older-woman/ If you've been to Teneriffe before, then you would've seen the River and the trees. You would've seen the semi-expensive lofts and the semi-expensive restaurants and the bars and the... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/a-date-with-an-older-woman/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/a-date-with-an-older-woman/ Mon, 07 May 2012 22:06:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/the-skinny-girl-in-the-pool-party/ The annoying part about the pool party on Tuesday was that there was no pool. I was tricked. It was a party in some guy's house in Carseldine and in... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/the-skinny-girl-in-the-pool-party/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/the-skinny-girl-in-the-pool-party/ Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:16:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/high-school-all-over-again/ I kept failing with Candy until I decided to actually call her. "She's into finance and all that, right?" Jude asked me beforehand. "Immediately ask her something about the stock... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/high-school-all-over-again/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/high-school-all-over-again/ Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:25:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/chasing-candy-on-easter/ At first, nothing worked with Candy. Funny texts didn't work. Funny Facebook messages didn't work. She'd be interested for a moment but then stop responding. Maybe she was too smart... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/chasing-candy-on-easter/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/chasing-candy-on-easter/ Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:39:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/how-to-write-an-award-winning-short-story/ I've written four novels. The first was terrible, the second was terrible, the third was confused, the latest better than average. All have so far been repeatedly rejected. I've had... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/how-to-write-an-award-winning-short-story/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/how-to-write-an-award-winning-short-story/ Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:37:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/why-we-are-alone/ I don't know about you, but I've spent most of my life alone. Even when I'm with other people, there's some part of me - the important part of me... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/why-we-are-alone/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/why-we-are-alone/ Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:12:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/candy-the-lecturer-and-the-only-other-kids-who-didnt-go-to-the-future-music-festival/ Six people didn't end up going to the Future Music Festival. There was me, there was this hipster guy from Up North named Billy, there was his girlfriend, there was... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/candy-the-lecturer-and-the-only-other-kids-who-didnt-go-to-the-future-music-festival/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/candy-the-lecturer-and-the-only-other-kids-who-didnt-go-to-the-future-music-festival/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:03:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/how-to-be-unsuccessful/ It was our last day in Melbourne and Jude and I realised that we'd learnt nothing from our brief holiday at all. We were in a twenty-four hour kebab store... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/how-to-be-unsuccessful/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/how-to-be-unsuccessful/ Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:11:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/what-happened-to-valentines-day/ We first decided that we knew what love is when we were both around eight years old and we were on our own bikes and you yelled, "Do you love... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/what-happened-to-valentines-day/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/what-happened-to-valentines-day/ Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:44:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/tried-and-tested-remedies-for-heartbreak-that-dont-work/ I've been the cause and victim of heartbreak too many times in my life, and the worst lesson I've learnt from it all is that I can't help but make... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/tried-and-tested-remedies-for-heartbreak-that-dont-work/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/tried-and-tested-remedies-for-heartbreak-that-dont-work/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:36:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/new-year-with-the-girl-without-underwear/ We were in Melbourne, in Little Collins Street, at this place that sold ten dollar pizzas during lunch. I was the only one who wasn't drinking. "It's my resolution for... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/new-year-with-the-girl-without-underwear/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/new-year-with-the-girl-without-underwear/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:58:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/a-happy-new-year-to-those-in-pain/ Here's one of those Happy New Year greetings to the judged, the needy, the hurt, the damaged. Here's a drink to the drinkers and a strip for the strippers. If... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/a-happy-new-year-to-those-in-pain/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/a-happy-new-year-to-those-in-pain/ Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:09:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/getting-over-heartbreak-on-christmas/ My heartbroken friends have done all sorts of things. They've threatened to kill themselves, they've killed themselves, they've cried in their cars, they've cried in their rooms, they've cried in... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/getting-over-heartbreak-on-christmas/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/getting-over-heartbreak-on-christmas/ Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:38:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/two-liars-after-the-foo-fighters-concert/ The words GIRLS ARE PERVS flickered on Jude's singlet as about five of us ran around a campfire by some beach in the Gold Coast, dizzy from quite a few... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/two-liars-after-the-foo-fighters-concert/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/two-liars-after-the-foo-fighters-concert/ Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:51:00 GMT http://www.alwayseighteen.com/how-we-see-the-beautiful-rich-girls/ Thank you to Sash and her partner for these drawings. Lately, the receptionist and I have been hanging out with a lot of Jude's wealthy female friends. After some time... http://www.alwayseighteen.com/how-we-see-the-beautiful-rich-girls/#comments http://www.alwayseighteen.com/how-we-see-the-beautiful-rich-girls/ Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:19:00 GMT