During the winter of 2023, after hitting a creative roadblock, Gary embarked on an eight-week writing mission, while living in a rented loft, perched above an old Victorian building in inner city Melbourne. Gary's loft was a sanctuary, a place where thoughts flowed freely, unburdened by the distractions of the outside world. The loft's walls absorbed his words, becoming a canvas for his literary brushstrokes. Eight weeks passed in a blur of verse, prose, sonnets, rhymes and balladry...Within these pages lies the results.