The Age newspaper published 4 short stories last weekend as part of its Festive Season editions.
"Sultan's Battery" by Aravind Adiga (the 2009 Man Booker prize winner)
"Walking Distance" by Michael McGirr (a place-getter in several year of The Age short story competition)
"Yes and No" by Catherine Ford (winner of the Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award in 1997)
"The Door Next Door" by Emily Perkins (her latest novel is Novel About My Wife)