Darren Stein is an Australian writer and poet. He teaches English and the vicissitudes of life at a public high school on Sydney's North Shore. His work has been published in a variety of publications, most recently, the Foreign Literary Journal, CultureCult Magazine, Quadrant and Going Down Swinging. He has written three books, including "Stop all the clocks", "Storage Space: A collection of contemporary poetry" and "The Nut House Poems", all available on Amazon and Kindle.
The Dragon versus the Koala is a short story that provides a speculative snapshot of a war between the People’s Republic of China and Australia. While the United States fights for its own life, Australia is left alone across a vast ocean in which its greatest ally is unable to come to its defense.
The St Ives High School Literary Journal (Volume 2) highlights the ongoing literary achievements of the students of St Ives High School in Sydney, Australia.
Although Vampires are found in many cultures, this is a short story about the Jewish origins of the Vampire legend as found in the Torah and Talmud which has entered into literature. The information in this regard is factual, as was the treatment of the Jews I describe in the late Middle Ages, just before the advent of the European Enlightenment in the early 1800's.