Short Fiction Randolph Bedford: Fourteen Fathoms by Quetta Rock, v1, 19 April 2025,

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Randolph Bedford (1868-1941) led an improbably colourful and adventurous life, from roaming Australia and New Guinea searching for mining opportunities, to serving several terms in the Queensland parliament. He wrote several novels and plays, numerous poem and short stories, and was a vigorous and opinionated freelance journalist. So far as I can establish, no collection of his short stories or poems was ever published.

"Wagstaff" stories
1: The Dancing Trees
2: The Black Prize
3: The Lost Raggianas
4: The Ocean Prince Charter
5: "Sisewa"
6: The Mystery of the Six Twigs
7: Filamena's Hula
8: The Atacan and a Pair of Boots
Other Stories
9: A Samaritan of the Riverine
10: Fourteen Fathom by Quetta Rock
11: The Man who Held the Wires
12: The Secret of Ledger D.
13: Poor Relations
14: Aim at the Pigeon
15: "Come, My Love, and Go with Me"
16: Trouble in Banana Row
17: Limelight at Sudden Jerk
18: Eight Stone Six
19: Come Day, Go Day
20: Two Hundred Tons o' Pig

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