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.

Embracing Stellar

It is difficult to believe that there still exists gaps within the quagmire of online social and content...

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...

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.