God is an Apricot

Gabriel knows he’s sick. It’s in his blood but he refuses to accept it as a anything more than a flu a few antibiotics can clear up. Instead, he sweats over his masterpiece, a contemporary reproduction of Swan Lake performed in the Shepherds Hill Recreation Park south of Adelaide. What begins as an artistic distraction swiftly becomes a fever-fuelled obsession.

Robert Moore’s metaphysical tour de forceps, God is an Apricot, is a surreal exploration of creative mania. It’s a head-first dive from Gabriel’s fantasy of putting on one last big show and into a mind trip of the glorious and unreal.

Author Biography

Award winning writer and author Robert Moore has had numerous articles, poetry and short stories published in a variety of magazines and on national and local radio. An article on HIV was published with Living Now magazine in 2000. He has an Advanced Diploma in Arts (Professional Writing) from Adelaide ACArts. His play Brewing which deals with HIV in a rural setting received funding from The Richard Llewellyn Trust ArtsSA for creative development with a dramaturge, professional actors and the late Geoff Crowhurst as director. Mother Tongue, a short story on domestic violence was the subject of a film in 2014. He was joint winner of the inaugural Feast Festival Short Story Competition in 2001 and in 2021 won the Feast Festival Short Story Competition for established writers.