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"That Place in Memory" was selected for Australia's 2007 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards. The theme it explores is what kind-hearted people will do in order to survive when they are forced to do anything. Dan Campbell is haunted by his past and sinks increasingly into despair as the years pass. On his 11th birthday 30 years ago, he witnessed his father being killed and saved his mother from a crazy stranger. But every time he recalled that terrible day, he always felt like something was wrong. But he couldn't see clearly, it seemed to be out of focus in his memory. The depression and despair he felt every year on his birthday had hurt his current family, so he decided to take his mother back to his childhood home to face his memories and put an end to the past. Traveling back in time isn't easy, and what Dan discovers there will turn his world upside down, as everything and everyone conflicts with his memories, and when his present meets his past, his life is threatened.

Helen's life was in decline - every night, she could always hear the vague footsteps in the corridor, the greedy and rapid breathing, and the "squeak" of the bedroom door being slowly pushed open, and a pair of big cold hands walking around her body - it was "him" who was back. She knew that "he" was going to take her away and take her back to the nightmare fifty years ago. Returning to the damp and cold sugar cane forest, the paraffin floor overflowing with bodily fluids, the twisted and struggling body, and the red liquid. Fifty years ago, during the storm of breaking free from the "cage", she thought the survivors would gain permanent freedom. However, fate reincarnated and "he" appeared again. The nightmare has just begun...

C. A. Hawking's "A Place to Roost" brings together two women with very different lives. Marianne Hardwicke, a successful woman, is ambitious, selfish and has a bright future; Eve Warrender, a criminal, has spent the past six years in a serious prison sentence accused of murdering her two sons. Marianne Hardwick got everything she wanted: to become the most powerful woman in the country. Some people admire and admire her, while others comment that she is iron-fisted and cold-blooded, scheming and manipulative. Only two people truly understood her - her husband and her brother - one whom she loved with all her heart, and one who hated her with all her heart. When she discovers secrets from her past that could destroy her image and future, fate leads her to Eve Volend. Her life spirals out of control when she discovers that everything she believed was a lie. To survive, she must face the greatest challenge to her sanity - the truth about herself.