Back in 1995, the Railway Hotel in inner Melbourne was one of those terrific old Australian pubs that sadly seem to have all but disappeared. Built in the 1920s, it was a true working man’s pub. Certainly, there were rough, even criminal elements who drank there. Many of these men came with dangerous reputations that you didn’t question. There were also some professional types who would come in after work. Teachers, archi...

My wife, Lyn and I had been married about six months. We’d been together about three years before that. I was in my late twenties and she was a little older, almost thirty-one. But she was extremely active and sporty and retained the body of someone much younger. In fact, it was her perfectly formed bottom that had first attracted me to her. She was a brunette with wavy hair and a very pretty face and about average sized...

I had just turned twenty-two when I first started working at the KAILOR EAST FOOTY CLUB. It was just bar work on a Thursday and Friday night and all day and night Saturday. It was a second job for me as I already had a full-time job working in ad min in a store that sold plumbing fittings. Neither job was particularly exciting, but my boyfriend and I were saving for a deposit for a house so we wanted all the money we coul...