Short-fiction writer, blogger, coffee enthusiast.

Hello. I'm Mark Welker, a short fiction writer based in Melbourne. Welcome to my blogfolio, a place where you can read, listen and watch the products of my overactive imagination.

Where did the night go?

Gil Scott-Heron’s “Where did the night go’” from the album “I’m New...

True grit

A recent 99 percent article examined the relationship between achievement and a quality of self control...

The pleasures of distraction

It’s been a little quiet on the blog over the last month as various planets of distraction move...

Without Country

Two men wait in the shallows of a new country, unable to cross the last yards to shore.

City of Birds

A man searches for his lost son in a drowned post-apocalyptic landscape.

Greyfields

When a shopping centre is dying, its patronage slipping away, its referred to as a greyfield.