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White Sand, Black Sea
by Carly Rawson The worst of the cyclone had spared them but it still gave the town a good licking. The power was out, the roads full of water and downed trees.…
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Love and Other Vices
By Daniela Abriola I wasn’t opposed to the idea of going out for drinks. Especially since I hadn’t left my room in three days. But who’s counting. Except I felt rather comfortable…
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Parallax by Robin Morgan
Reviewed by Frances Bigger. I do love a story within a story, and Robin Morgan’s Parallax is just that, a group of stories within a story in a world where stories are…
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Book Review: Angela Savage’s Mother of Pearl.
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “Meg blinked back tears of frustration. This was not a conversation she wanted to have. She grasped her skirt in tight fists and took a deep breath. […]…
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The woods are dark.
by Laura Wild The woods are dark. They crawl with evil beasts that slither and stalk after prey through the bristling walls of pines and lonely valleys that sink between the mountains.…
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Foreplay
by Tina Tsironis Flirting that functions as foreplay is my downfall. I can’t get enough of the shoving, the ribbing, the close lean into one another, just enough that I inhale their momentarily…
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Apple Orchard
by Kate Harland There’s a somewhat delicate and complicated thing. A precious and knowing thing that I have kept with me. A thing that’s forgotten ’cept for when it’s remembered and whole…
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Old Fish
By Miles Boyle-Bryant ‘You smell like old fish.’ ‘Yeah? Well you smell like dog farts, Leo.’ I’m Leo. My dad is old fish. ‘Yeah, but you look like a dog’s bum.’ ‘And…
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Memories [Real or Imagined]
by Jessica Murdoch The One with the Cake Cake isn’t about cake. It’s about comfort or celebration or nostalgia. Cravings for cake cannot be easily satiated by substitutions. Cake means birthdays. Elaborate…
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Julienne van Loon’s The Thinking Woman
Reviewed by Eugen Bacon. An insightful foreword by Anne Summers gives you hint of this philosophical book that celebrates being a woman. It is a compelling piece of art, autobiography and scholarship…
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Lauren O’Connell
Lauren O’Connell is an Irish-Australian emerging writer. She has a Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing from Swinburne University and is currently completing the Diploma of the same qualification. She writes…
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Depart.
by Anne Walsh I. Your death is a soft, green wing. Velvet spun by sun. A parrot’s wing. Just one more thing, one more shade of impossible for grief to…
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Julie Keys Interview
by Samuel Elliott Julie Keys lives in the Illawarra region on the NSW south coast. Her short stories have been published across a range of Australian journals. Julie has worked as a…
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Anthony Lawrence
Anthony Lawrence has published fifteen books of poetry and a novel. His books and individual poems have won a number of awards, most recently the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Award (Poetry) for…
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Debbie Lim
Debbie Lim was born in Sydney. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies including regularly in the Best Australian Poems series (Black Inc.), and Contemporary Australian Poetry and Contemporary Asian Australian Poets…
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A Mind Like Lightning
by Hélène Cardona Stars scribble in our eyes the frosty sagas, the glowing cantos of unvanquished space. —Hart Crane Without gravity I fly into a thousand pieces, add sparkle to…
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Wrecked on Rakia
By Ian C. Smith, I didn’t yet know what the obscure legacy of becoming a mature-age undergraduate would mean. For a first-year history assignment I chose to research immigrants’ difficulties with…
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Swimming the Horse
by Anthony Lawrence, For Eleanor Hooker. It’s not just hoof prints on sand that leave proof of a visitation of mane, flare & muscled hide as the daytime moon apportions…
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Women’s Rights
By Amirah Al Wassif, don’t try to introduce my skin to your skin cause such introduction doesn’t let the light to get in don’t try to prove me as your servant while…
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Ian C. Smith
Ian C Smith’s work has appeared in, Amsterdam Quarterly, Australian Poetry Journal, Critical Survey, Live Encounters, Poetry New Zealand, Southerly, & Two-Thirds North. His seventh book is wonder sadness madness joy, Ginninderra…
