The Unburied climbs from her grave and all the little pieces of her fit like unshattering glass. The femurs groan into the sockets of the hip, the ribs crack into …
Paddle Boats (Katelin Farnsworth)
(edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) We sat in a paddle boat and ate cheese sandwiches. The water swirled slowly around us. This is nice, you said, and it was nice. The …
manifest (Melinda Smith)
If you must make me, draw me forth through that needle’s eye have a care for this raw skin what abrades it, how it may be sliced and sutured I …
The Olive Pit (Lucas Smith)
When Janice agreed to marry me ten years ago, her one condition was that I give up active duty and take a desk job. At the time I was one …
Irradiate Me (Bruce Saunders)
(edited by Tim Heffernan & Alise Blayney) 20:20 My world is controlled By numbers I see them everywhere Like some numerologist Or lost mathematician Descartes with his planar thought I’m …
Forecast (Jamie Alcock)
I am under the silence of a silent migraine yet before me are seas of blessed days. click. In the future eagles nest in cardboard boxes and women …
Digesting Grief: Krissy Kneen’s Eating My Grandmother: a grief cycle
(edited by Robyn Cadwallader) In Krissy Kneen’s 2009 memoir Affection, her grandmother Dragitsa Marusic (aka Lotty Kneen) was introduced as the family’s best storyteller, and as a person who did …
Rabbit on the Promenade (Ariel Riveros Pavez)
Rabbit on the Promenade in homage to JS Harry Umwelt of responses and in the substrates below a silt of muted action. There are inaudible gasps bouncing in echo chambers …
UNTWISTING YOUR OWN TONGUE: an interview with Roanna Gonsalves
Roanna Gonsalves is the author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP, 2016) a collection of short fiction exploring how the newly arrived find their place in a new land. Her series …
Apologies, I forgot you exist (Fleur Beaupert)
On the verge of this sheer pink dress fits my childhood fantasy glass slipper | Inside it I’m so brown I’m clear White gold un dress | B(l)onded into celibacy …