The Quintessential Q

Of all the people Sean had thought he might have seen at the dodgy dive-bar, he was in no way expecting his priest, exorcising his very own demons at the bottom of a litre stein.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 17

Nano Narrative – 17/03/2025

House hunting for Leyla and Layla got so desperate that they began sticking fake SOLD stickers on properties they were interested in, just to sow confusion and drive away other offers.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 16

Nano Narrative – 16/03/2025

One year, Red Bull was accidentally given to the bulls before the Running of the Bulls. Given they could now all fly, their threat level increased dramatically; the Spanish air force scrambled fighters to take them down.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 15

Nano Narrative – 15/03/2025

Milly was a daredevil that hated physical activity, so she sated her risk-seeking desires at a more lethargic, homebody level, like heating up butter in the microwave and rushing over before it splattered everywhere.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 14

Nano Narrative – 14/03/2025

Their parents just didn’t get it. Once begun, one could not just ‘pause’ a Duel-of-the-Fates-esque epic battle between the two brothers, until one of them succumbed to the other’s toy lightsaber.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 13

Nano Narrative – 13/03/2025

It was the perfect bonding session: a hungover Harrison on the couch with his much younger sister, both lost in the world of Saturday morning cartoons.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 12

Nano Narrative – 12/03/2025

In a never-before-seen display, the crowd applauded the referees instead of their own teams, who’d both played a putrid game, ridden with errors and strafed with inaccuracy in front of goal.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 11

Nano Narrative – 11/03/2025

The pregnant woman used her swollen belly to cut a path through the crowd, onto the train and into a politely-offered seat.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 10

Nano Narrative – 10/03/2025

On the bright spring day, Diana Price gunned her motorbike up the Hume, trying to go fast enough to outrun the other traffic and her problems. As she came over a rise, she was greeted with a canola field ready for harvest – a vast swathe of yellow – and suddenly her worries seemed to back off on their own.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 9

Nano Narrative – 09/03/2025

A vegan, kleptomaniac and a priest tried to walk into a bar, but were denied by a stubborn and unreasonable bouncer, which ruined both the entire night but also the joke.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 8

Nano Narrative – 08/03/2025

While out walking, Frank came across a scattered collection of champagne corks. Judging by their distance from the closest apartment block, and the fact he’d been rudely awoken last night because of fireworks, Frank guessed that today was New Year’s Day.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 7

Nano Narrative – 07/03/2025

When Emmett accidentally tried to activate his Alexa with a call of ‘Siri’, the Amazon agent ominously began to count down from ten. Emmett made it out just in time before the Alexa exploded like a frag grenade and peppered his room with shrapnel.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 6

Nano Narrative – 06/03/2025

The picture of tenacity: a small dog leaping for his owner’s crumbling croissant, crumbs raining down upon him from far above.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 5

Nano Narrative – 05/03/2025

Vestal virgin, Virgil, chased purity in all its forms: in the stain remover he used for his clothes, in the organic nature of his food, in the untainted cocaine that went up his nostrils. That’s why, when it came to romance, he stuck to kissing and hands-stuff.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 4

Nano Narrative – 04/03/2025

The Sydney ferry overcrowding reached its peak when crews began offering tow ropes and wakeboards to drag just a few more people along in the boat’s gigantic wake.

Matthew Querzoli

Mar 3

Nano Narrative – 03/03/2025

Longtime vegetable-spurner, Gerald Stone, decided one day to give them a crack, after hearing so much about their health benefits. Tragically, the surprise rush of nutrients into his wizened body stopped his heart dead.

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