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Defective
By Lauren O’Connell I think I am made to fluff up a decadent batter. Eggs, sugar, butter, grace my beaters and bowl, I can make it better than any other. No. I…
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Cutlery, the Importance of
By Amanda Bell Men were supposed to wield long knives, preside at table, carve thin slices sidelong. Yet when my father handed on the role I didn’t yield my brother space,…
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ENDONE® Oxycodone hydrochloride 5 mg
By Stuart Barnes Blister-white tablet engraved with ‘ENDONE’ on one side, break bar the other. It does not take the place of your doctor or pharmacist: opium or morphine: Accident or…
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Gaia Cries Another Ocean
By Audrey Molloy You will remember only as far as your Babushka but, girl, the songs go back further, stored in your temporal lobes, dormant until you hear them as if…
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Joe Humphreys
Joe Humphreys is a graduate of Swinburne. His fiction, essays and reviews have been published in a wide range of magazines and journals.
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AFTER THE SHOOTINGS
By Rochelle Jewel Shapiro Words sobbed into shoulders, into sweaty hair, the clavicle, the forehead, the breast your breast is pressed against, into the vibrations of each other`s solar plexus, the pelvis, the…
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Ebon Cans
By Stuart Barnes In the twinkling of an eye, in a moment, all is changed —Gwen Harwood, ‘Bone Scan’ In the twinkling of her eye, all is changed: the small blond…
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not quite …
By Marilyn Humbert not quite the hand on her shoulder between desk and door not quite the hazer loudmouth of innuendos not quite the excuse just joking … not quite sons…
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GOD’S OWN…
By Julie Fredericks Disturbing events that truly challenge the moral compass we all share. all over the world a thousand hearts break a thousand stars lights diminished dull further a thousand…
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Glenice Whitting
Glenice Whitting is passionate about writing. Her academic journey in Creative Writing took her from VCE to a PhD. She has published two novels, Pickle to Pieand Something Missingand writes plays, articles…
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Michael Farrell
Interviewed by Samuel Elliott. About the Poet: Michael Farrell’s previous collections include living at the z, ode ode (shortlisted for the Age Poetry Book of the Year Award), BREAK ME OUCH, a raiders guide (published by Giramondo in 2008), thempark and thou sand. His…
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Promised Land
By Mohammad Ali Maleki (edited by Michele Seminara) I travel at the speed of electricity and wind to depression and hopelessness. I’m fed up with this miserable life — I’ll be…
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Charlie
By Denise O’Hagan Every hospital has a Charlie Someone who’s slipped through society’s cracks And sits obstinately on the outside A grit in the eye of every passerby And a reproof…
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Jenny Butler
Jenny Butler writes about the things that people don’t like to talk about, at least not openly. She has had short stories published most recently in October Hill Magazine, and previously in Adelaide Literary…
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joy!/joy?
By Jayant Kashyap and, somewhere, in the street surrounded by shrapnel and falling walls, children shoot each-other in a game they play after their war-heroes apart from reality what’s war to…
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THROWING THINGS
By Kenneth Pobo The last time I got into a fight with Stan, we threw things. I took a bank book right to my bread basket. He took a cat wand…
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“I’m almost home safe.”
By Wendy J Dunn She Lost her life the news presenter said walking home late one night She lost her life, why say that? It sounds like he thought she was careless…
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What Ever Works
(The Story Time Project)By Joe Humphreys Lock and key: the distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment. Ambrose Bierce It’s not a new idea—telling stories is as old as humanity. Yet it never fails to surprise…
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Thomas van Essen
Thomas van Essen is a philosophy and literature undergrad at the Swinburne University of Technology. An avid reader of speculative fiction and sci-fi, he aspires to one day have published work of…
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Philip Porter
Philip Porter has had a portfolio career, in other words, a succession of unrelated jobs in a variety of countries, with no end-view in sight. They have all involved the use of language…
