About this ebook
flame that tempts him back to a love that seemed too good to be true at the
time...
An opera singer returns from Europe to find his music teacher’s
wife who taught him the meaning of true passion...
A teenage girl competing in an Eisteddfod at Port Arthur
finds that the brutal historic site and her hostess have more than a few secrets
— and ghosts — in common...
Migrating north to Queensland, a man finds his lover immersed
in more than a change of scene...
All hell breaks loose on a cul-de-sac when two otherwise married people admit
to having it off — right under the nose of Neighbourhood Watch...
Triangles was first runner-up for the 2000 Steele
Rudd Short Fiction Award, as announced 18 October 2000 at the Brisbane Writers’
Festival.
About the author
David P Reiter is perhaps better known as the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which, Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems, was shortlisted for the prestigious John Bray Award at the 1998 Adelaide Festival for the Arts. But he has been writing fiction longer than poetry and has had individual stories published extensively in Australia and North America, as well as being commended in competitions.
In recognition of his talent as a story teller, he was invited to be a feature reader at the 1996 American Association of Australian Literary Studies in Arcata, California along with David Malouf, where he read fiction that appears in Triangles.
Never content within the restrictions of conventional form and technique, Reiter's stories test the limits, bringing in post-modernist and magical realistic elements to complement his love of satire. His influences include James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway (of course!), John Cheever, J D Salinger and John Updike, as well as Australian authors such as Morris Lurie, Peter Carey and Frank Moorhouse.
