Bushfire Stories

𝘼𝙣𝙜𝙨𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙨, 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙨 = 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙤𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧! A broken girl. A broken past. A bro...

"You are my drug. I need you to keep me alive," she gasped, tugging him closer. "Too much of a drug can kill, you know," he warned, his blackened gaz...

A true short story memoir based on a boy and a bushfire.

Saturday February 7th, 2009 is one of the darkest days in Victoria's history. It was the day that raging bushfires swept the Australian state, leaving destruction and lo...

This is a poem I wrote about a bushfire that came through my suburb a few years back. I wrote is for a school assignment and also entered a poetry slam but I didn't plac...

After summer lightning come the fires... Ken could smell the distinctive scent of burning eucalyptus. Although he was safely inside the house with the windows shut...

The temperatures are apocalyptic and hell is coming. Join me on a tale of survival, heroes, and community. It's the 20th of December 2019, a mere 5 days before Christmas...

Zahra has experienced fire before but never like this. She must survive Black Summer and hold onto her hope. For her family is crumbling and she's sure that her home wil...

Timothy loses his dog in a forest in Victoria. He finds him but notices a fire in the distance, they run down to the creek and wait it out.

This is a story dedicated to the black Saturday bush fires in kinglake west, it's only a short story. Enjoy.

Digger is an Australian cattle dog -- a blue heeler-- who lives with his family in the Australian outback. He is dog-napped from the side of the road, and ends up with a...

Luke Hemmings was a wild chap. He wasn't like the other kids, he favoured guitars over the popular Australian pipe, the didgerydoo, he preferred a light swim over to mak...

I wrote these poems as an Aussie farmer during the drought in 2019. 2019 was the last year of the drought, we had already suffered however for 4 years without rain. The...

"No Sarah, we can't take Sophie with us!" You yell through the thick cloud of smoke. You cough as you see Sarah hug her horse for the last time and reach for y...

Christmas is supposed to be a time of love and laughter, of sharing and caring for each other. But it's not that way for everyone, take a few minutes to read my poems a...

Australia is currently experiencing one of the largest natural disasters in history. This year fire season has brought about unprecendented destruction as wildfires have...

Australia is burning somewhere everyday. Now it's happening to my local area again. They are the worst in a decade and it's still only spring!