Stories about the selves we bury
Moonah forest photograph by Mark S. Perry. Digitally enhanced.
Melbourne, 1986. A teenage synthesiser musician in the vibrant alternative music scene finds his band on the edge of a breakthrough. But becoming the artist he wants to be might mean losing everyone who loved who he was.
Excerpt published in Patter, 2025
A data analyst hollowed out by years of digital addiction retreats to a remote Highland community. Trapped in his cabin, he finds a shortwave radio and becomes obsessed with a cryptic transmission.
In development
Something ancient waits in the Australian bush.
Shortlisted for the 2026 Kill Your Darlings Flash Fiction Prize
In a future where touch can infect, a woman chooses desire over safety — and isn't sure she wants to be saved.
On Submission
Mark S. Perry is a writer based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, working across literary fiction, auto-fiction, folk horror, memoir, and screenwriting. His work explores the tension between performed and authentic identity — the selves we construct and the ones we suppress.