Here is a free short story taken from Travel Under Any Star. The Sleeping Stranger won a literary award and was included in One Book Many Brisbanes 2007 collection.

Here it is at Kill Your Darlings:

https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/2016/11/new-fiction-the-sleeping-stranger/

And here at The Barcelona Review:

http://www.barcelonareview.com/66/e_va.html