Tag: Issue Nine Fiction
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Twilight Driving
By Lauren Connell One… Two… Three… I tally dead roos littered on the roadside. Locals swear the mangled phantoms of the roos haunt this highway. They say this is the shittiest road in the country to drive on during those uncertain hours of dusk. Dad says you’re a bloody idiot if you drive along…
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Shearing
By Heidi Scheffers It must be about two-thirty in the afternoon because the sweat under my armpits is just reaching my belt. I probably dragged this broom across the shed floor a million times today, and for a million days before that, for all of seven summers since I was ten. The shearers yell…
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Above the Water
By Kiara Ash Grandmother often tells me stories about where we come from. The sweeping coastlines, rugged cliffs, and passionate waterfalls. She gets this sad, wistful look on her face, a look of longing for another life. I ask her, ‘Grandmother, why go there?’ and she always gives me the same answer: ‘It doesn’t…
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Karen
By Heidi Scheffers You are reduced to a number when you clock in for the day. In here, there are no days, no time. The light is always on: it beams down on you from big, industrial somethings in the ceiling. You can’t see them, nor can you even see the ceiling – they…