Category: Creative Writing

A distraught Logan is shaken by the death of his close friend Lily, a casualty of farm management’s negligence. Utilizing his RAAF-honed skills and connections with his old hacker crew—Moonbeam, Chartreuse, and Dragon—he plans to uncover and expose the company’s secrets. Logan is driven by the need for justice, tapping into his quick thinking and…

Logan, tormented by Lily’s death, meticulously prepares to infiltrate and sabotage the farm responsible for her loss. With military precision, he breaches security, finding a windfall in a hidden safe and agrarian misdeeds in documents. As close calls with security increase the danger, he shifts focus toward cybercrime, aiming to attack financially and digitally. Planning…

Logan grapples with inner turmoil and the lure of vengeance for his deceased best friends Dan and Sarah’s daughter, Lily, (well, actually his daughter, but only he and Sarah know that) as his worried mother Patricia senses something is amiss. Despite Patricia’s heartfelt pleas for him to choose a different path and her fear of…

Logan, a former RAAF member, has become a vigilante hacker seeking justice for his deceased partner, Lily. Disillusioned by a failure of justice, he infiltrates Adelaide’s vulnerable businesses, escalating his cyberattacks as a tribute to Lily. Meanwhile, Stephanie McBride, a savvy investigator, notices his precision amidst the chaos. Drawn into the digital underworld, she begins…

Logan, a solitary figure consumed by his screens, seeks the mentorship of a digital legend, D@@Mladen. Despite the odds, D@@Mladen defies expectations and challenges Logan to a midnight meeting in Adelaide. At a shabby bar, he discovers D@@Mladen is an adept woman, defying his expectations. Thrust into an intensive hacking boot camp, Logan learns about…

Venturing into D@@Mladen’s underground hacker lair, I, Logan, am thrust into an intense apprenticeship emphasizing coding and encryption as the backbone of hacking. Despite feeling awkward and oversized, this world values intellect over appearance. As D@@Mladen rigorously coaches me through Python, system understanding, and social engineering, a deep partnership forms. Fletcher keystrokes become a weapon…

Logan The server room hummed like a nest of hornets. Stephanie McBride stood at the threshold, her sharp gaze sweeping across the banks of blinking machinery. She was the new blood at SAPOL, fresh talent with a sniper’s precision for cybercrime detection. Early forties, hair the colour of wet earth pulled back in a no-nonsense…

Stephanie The gentle clinking of glasses and the murmur of contented conversation enveloped my husband and I as we sat in the warm glow of a Melbourne eatery, a rare oasis of calm amidst the relentless pace of our lives. A soft amber light played on the white tablecloth, casting elongated shadows of the wine…

Stephanie Fingers danced across the keyboard, a staccato rhythm in the near-dark. The glow from the screen was the only light, casting an eerie pallor on Stephanie’s face. She delved deeper, layers of security peeling away under her relentless assault. Dark web, darker motives. Australia’s underbelly was throbbing with digital pulses of crime, and she…

The warehouse loomed ahead, a hulking monument to illicit dealings and cyber shadows. I took it in, the rust on the corrugated iron cladding, the silence that hugged its walls too tight. No goons on watch, no cameras winking their red eyes at me. Odd. I swallowed hard, the pulse in my throat ticking like…