This short story collection combines various works from the span of the author's career, carefully curated to provide a full image of the writing and research life, out of Western Australia and abroad. As a Historian and writer, Jacobs considers the actions and events in Western Australian history and how it has shaped the West Coast identity as it is known today. Using story-telling to confront a forbidden and forgotten history, Jacobs navigates how we might acknowledge the ignorance and experience which brought us to this point. Confronting and sobering, The Collected Short Stories, combines the fragments of Australian identity and finds balance in our common shared experience of history and land.