Rebecca Huntley volunteers at her child's canteen and discovers that years working in politics have not prepared her for the internal machinations of the tuckshop.

Toby Schmitz uses the Story Club chair for therapy as he talks about shoplifting rice, recieving a bag of chokitos as payment and his current jaunt at 'saying pirate things in front of a green screen'.

Annabel Crabb recalls 'the agony and ecstasy of foreign-correspondent-ism'

David Cunningham outlines his troubled relationship with food and explains what, exactly a 'penny-farthing' is in pizza terms.

Tommy Dassalo lands his big break in a series of ads for a major bank during the London Olympics. It does not go well.

A young Zoë demands and then kills several pet fish.

Derrick C. Brown discovers that honesty is not the best policy at his church's high school summer camp.

David Marr on the role of 'bridge with trainer wheels' in the breakdown of his marriage.

Kirsten Drysdale, in her former life as an elite athelete, undergoes ASADA drug testing...two weeks after taking drugs.