By Tim Train
She walked in the shop in a polka dot dress,
And a hat made of twenty house bricks;
She ordered a coffee, with sugar, I said?
And she stunned me with several kicks —
My dream girl.
She said, hey, we're flying, so I looked and we were
Then I fell onto Barack Obama.
Then she went away and when she came back
I was in school in just my pyjamas —
My dream girl.
Then she was a churchyard but she was still her,
I was stuck in a hole, until sighing
She helped me get out and she took off my head —
She was utterly terrifying,g
My dream girl.
Then shouting my name she shattered two eggs
With a hammer and then I woke up —
My dream girl.
About The Author
Tim Train
Tim Train is a silly old fart masquerading as a silly middle aged fart who still thinks of himself as a silly young fart. He lives in Lalor, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, with a bunch of chickens (who he meows at) and two cats (who he clucks at), and a bunch of bees (who he is frankly terrified of and tries not to have much to do with at all). He is one of a team of MCs at Melbourne's longest-running poetry reading, "Poetry at the Dan O'Connell". Even sillier writing of his can be found on his blog, Will Type For Food.
Ion Newcombe is the editor and publisher of AntipodeanSF, Australia’s longest running online speculative fiction magazine, regularly issued since January 1998, and conceived back around November 2007. He has been a zealous reader and occasional writer of SF since his childhood in the 1960s, and even sold a few stories here and there back in the '90s.
Mark Webb's midlife crisis came in the form of attempting to write speculative fiction at a very slow pace. His wife maintains this is a good outcome considering the more expensive and cliched alternatives. Evidence of Mark's attempts to procrastinate in his writing, including general musings and reviews of books he has been reading, can be found at www.markwebb.name.
Mark is an astrophysicist and space scientist who worked on the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn. Following this he worked in computer consultancy, engineering, and high energy research (with a stint at the JET Fusion Torus).
Garry Dean lives on the Mid Coast of New South Wales Australia, and has been a fan of SF for most of his natural life. Being vision impaired, he makes good use of voice recognition and text to speech in order to write. Many of his stories have appeared in AntipodeanSF over the years, and his love of all things audio led him to join the narration team in 2017.
Laurie Bell lives in Melbourne, Australia. She was that girl you found with her nose always buried in a book. She has been writing ever since she was a little girl and first picked up a pen. From books to short stories, radio plays to snippets of ideas and reading them aloud to anyone who will listen.
David Whitaker is originally from the UK though has travelled around a bit and now resides in India. He has a degree in Journalism, however decided that as he’s always preferred making things up it should ultimately become a resource rather than a profession.
Pixie is a voice actor, cabaret performer & slam poet From the Blue Mountains in NSW.
Margaret lives the good life on a small piece of rural New South Wales Australia, with an amazing man, a couple of pets, and several rambunctious wombats.
Timothy Gwyn is a professional pilot in Canada, where he flies to remote communities. During a lull in his flying career, he was a radio announcer for three years, and he is also an author.