stitch our disunion into the gutshot —split my belly, suture. spare me your hand and bandage. kneel: your thighs bracket my hips as you etymologise me. anatomy of my …
The Health Inspectors – Part One (Anthony Macris)
(from an untitled novel in progress) He lies on the worn lino of the living room floor, waiting for his favourite TV show to begin. The room is dark; he …
Canjeera (Deb Wain)
The house is early-morning quiet when Khadro wakes. Light leaks into the room; the moon glows through the poorly curtained window. Nightmares of her past have followed her across borders, …
Shop girl (Bronwyn Lovell)
if you are waiting for the right girl the really truly special one who blows your mind and cock and the girl shop doesn’t have her in yet you can …
ONWARDS! Plans for 2018 and Christmas Wishes from Manus
Dear Readers, As we hurtle towards the vortex otherwise known as Christmas, we at Verity La would like to thank YOU for journeying with us this year. 2017 has been …
Burning the donkey (PS Cottier)
Burning the donkey We were suspicious from the start. What decent man brings a wife pregnant as a pudding into a new country, unless he wants the child to be …
of home and other closely guarded things (Justine Poon)
grandmother. dawn begins a golden thread circling the dark earth and coils us back from dreams like deep sea divers inside diving bells breaching surface, breath-fog …
Unearthing Hidden Histories: an interview with Claire G Coleman
Born in Western Australia, Indigenous author Claire G Coleman was raised in a Forestry’s settlement outside of Perth and identifies with the South Coast Noongar people, as well as having …
Glossopteris (Sophie Finlay)
bands of earth etch the transantarctic ranges cold geological burials we are linked through the exoskeletal — cambrian shells coil, mineralised bodies, the trilobite and then there is glossopteris — the …
The Art of Leaving (Miki Laval)
(Edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) The man who opens the front door is naked except for the towel around his hips. He seems surprised to see her and takes a quick …