Category: Issue Five Fiction
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By Keren Heenan My sister’s only been back a week. We sit in the kitchen and I listen to her talk about the city; the street, the hospital where she’d worked, now hidden under rubble. ‘There’s an old man,’ she says, ‘his house just a shell now. But he still plays music, I heard him…
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As Good as Gold
by N L King Kim ignores her father’s voice. She scrolls down her Instagram feed and taps a witty reply to her Canadian friend, Stevie. ‘Kim[1].’ Kim sighs and closes her phone. Her father is in the dark lounge room watching Gardening Australia. Tomorrow Bo will have Kim planting whatever Peter Cundall has just…
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Dead World By Jesse Williams.
The sky was an oppressive grey outside, as it always was. The old man peered at the clouds through a dusty window, squinting as though it would reveal a blue sky if he could only focus his sight. He had some memory of such times, when the sky was full of light and the earth…