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  • Shut Up and We’ll Be Good to You (Koraly Dimitriadis)Shut Up and We’ll Be Good to You (Koraly Dimitriadis)
    Shut Up and We’ll Be Good to You Shut up and we’ll be good to you Be good and we’ll love you We’ll tell powerful people about your book But ... Read More
  • The nature of loss <br>(Audrey Molloy)The nature of loss <br>(Audrey Molloy)
    Widow-makers, they call your boughs that plunge                    without warning, crush soft bodies beneath.  Yet I know you are not death but grief’s balled fist come down.  For seven years I decompose below your ... Read More
UNpersoned Podcast

Tune in to the UNpersoned Podcast where managing editor Michele Seminara unpacks what's happening in the arts and literary scenes with guests from Australia and around the world. 

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The Vault

Fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism published in Verity La since 2013.

An archive of writing committed to artistic independence, freedom of expression, and resistance to ideological conformity.
  • Who Is He (And What Is He To You?) (Jesse Rice-Evans)Who Is He (And What Is He To You?) (Jesse Rice-Evans)
    after Grey’s Anatomy S13E16 If you’re having second thoughts, remember that it happens to all of us: knowing that sitting in windowless rooms becomes normal; the smeared latinate language that ... Read More
  • SONDER SECLUSION (Faizan Adil)SONDER SECLUSION (Faizan Adil)
    Artist’s Statement Sonder: the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. Seclusion: the state of being private and away from other ... Read More

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