Frank Moohouse is one of the most adroit writers of short fiction in Australia. He joined the main stream of writers in early 1970s. He had his stories published in journals like Southerly, Westerly, Meanjin and Overland from 1957 onwards. The present study analyzes his collections of stories written between 1969 and 1988, it is marked with keen insights, systematic organisation of material and wide range of background reading. Moorhouseis a social chronicler of Australian Society, has established a new school of short story as reaction to Lawsonian School. The stories have their setting in the inner sub urban alternative society of Sydney.