in my office between classes I rage at flat things: the sea, the land, the hard, flat dollar coin and all its friends, the road too short by far …
STEPPING OVER SEASONS: an interview with Ashley Capes
Some writers draw you into each story or poem, and in these instances it’s cinematic, even if it’s not a particularly good film. There’s this one experience, and this is …
My Sheets Were Freshly Cleaned and Smelled of Lilac (Bel Woods)
She smiled that day, when I told her I was Yugoslavian, her bright lips an open suitcase – one of those soft slouchy ones with a saggy zipper – not …
A Hundred Set Apart in a Herd (Shane Jesse Christmass)
sorry I wasn’t thinking my mind wasn’t apt but it was afar I was anxious to listen that was my intent & I didn’t say anything when I should’ve …
Bear Vs. Plane! (Kirk Marshall)
We were sitting with calculable comfort at about 3,000 feet, our feeble human engineering warping from the relaxed atmosphere of our immediate surrounds, the cabin lights dimmed in a …
AN ENDLESS WELLSPRING: an interview with Pierz Newton-John
Pierz Newton-John is a Melbourne-based fiction writer, currently focusing on short stories, but with a novel in the pipeline. Among other places, his work has appeared in the Sleepers Almanac, …
Otherworld (Rjurik Davidson)
Come with me and I’ll tell you something. I once wandered here, on this very street, alone with eyes like black saucers, with lips bloated, my hair wild and windswept. …
A First Draft (Ryan O'Neill)
Beginning- thief/work/wife [“She was always heavily made up, like the body in a casket that had been in some terrible accident.” She is aware of thefts. Main character- “All …
TEARING THROUGH THE ENVELOPE: an interview with Ryan O’Neill
Ryan O’Neill has won the Hal Porter and Roland Robinson awards and got third in the most recent Age Short Story Competition. His stories have appeared in Sleepers, Best Australian …