Brisbane

Spring in the City (Ruadán Books, 2025), pp. 309-342
Ed. R. B. Wood & Anna Koon
Book cover: Spring in the City, ed. R. B. Wood & Anna Koon

Springtime in Brisbane. The jacaranda trees are blossoming and all is right with the world… until second-year university student Maxim Margraf-Jones, late for a tutorial and driving with his usual hectic verve, hits a scrub turkey. As if in retribution he finds the city’s foliage transformed, demons lurking in the branches. Just as unnervingly, the poised girl from his ancient history class has taken a sudden interest. But just what sort of reality has Maxim been shunted into?

Dragon architecture Teens on a couch Porthole view of alien treading manuscript pages