Comments on: VISITING BAD NEIGHBOURHOODS – 2

By: almurta

almurta — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:48:26 +0000

Thanks for all your comments. They really help me hone my writing. I never saw Hamish again but I always wondered what happened to the girl who joined the cult. The cult she joined was Ananda Marga – the group responsible for the only terrorist bombing that has occurred on Australian soil. Last I heard of her she was going off to a training camp in Western Australia!

By: Anita Marie

Anita Marie — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:36:59 +0000

I really enjoyed this- it gave me a lot to think about…which is something I enjoy taking away from something I’ve read.

By: Tabitha

Tabitha — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:30:47 +0000

It seems a great deal of work on the govts part to do nothing at all….both your case worker and poor Hamish’s story…

By: Sally

Sally — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:51:55 +0000

I could have had so much fun with that woman after 25 years in the prison system! But I am too well aware of how difficult disability assessments are as I went through one my self for migraines and my back. I was asked, “You’ve worked with migraines all your life. Why have you decided you can’t work with migraines anymore?”

By: cydlee61

cydlee61 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:30:15 +0000

Definitely a rich resource for further development here but what a remarkable story all on its own! You tell it in such a visual manner that I really could imagine myself there and I oould see that shaking young man sitting directly across from me. Wonderful!

By: woodnymph

woodnymph — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:32:08 +0000

That prison sounds like an awful place for first offenders. I hope Hamish has not had reason to return there. As for the girl in the cult…she is more than likely in some kind of a prison, too.

By: kvwordsmith

kvwordsmith — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:09:48 +0000

I must agree, Hamish doesn’t sound like a prisoner’s name…and even countries apart, you have nailed what prison waiting rooms are like…well done!

By: Heather Blakey

Heather Blakey — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:18:49 +0000

I really wish you had told her this story. I do hate it when people like this take it upon themselves to be officious. Perhaps you could have asked her if she had been a warder and mistaken you for someone else. All sorts of possibilities really. More fodder for the short stories I can see, the kind of character development that I loved about ‘Wild Side’ which has recently been re-run on the ABC.