Background

"A Positive" was first published in Australia in 1998 in issue #10 of the horror magazine Bloodsongs

Bloodsongs

Bloodsongs magazine was created by Steve Proposch and Chris A. Masters in 1993 as a vehicle for original horror fiction. It was published by Bambada Press in Melbourne Australia from 1993 to 1997....

. The issue was edited by Steve Proposch and David G. Barnett and published by Implosion Publishing and was the last issue of Bloodsongs

Bloodsongs

Bloodsongs magazine was created by Steve Proposch and Chris A. Masters in 1993 as a vehicle for original horror fiction. It was published by Bambada Press in Melbourne Australia from 1993 to 1997....

 to be published. In 2005 "A Positive" was republished in Kaaron Warren's collection, The Grinding House which was edited by Warren and published by CSFG Publishing. "A Positive" won the 1998 Aurealis Award for best horror short story

Aurealis Award for best horror short story

The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and SpecFaction NSW to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers"...

 beating works by Paul Brandon, Glyn Parry

Glyn Parry (author)

Glyn Parry is an Australian writer of children's literature, young-adult fiction, and speculative fiction.-Biography:Parry was born in 1959 in the north-east of England. At the age of 12 he moved to Lynwood, Western Australia where he attended Kinlock Primary School and then Rossmoyne Senior High...

, Aaron Sterns, as well as her other work that was nominated, "The Glass Woman".