Gita had a particularly vivid dream one night, cocooned within the walls of the hospital room. Maybe it was because of all the medication she was on. She woke, her …
Loud (Georgia Rose Phillips)
At an age where I am too young to be cognisant of time’s passing my mother announces the word audiologist to the kitchen sink. She is unconsciously circling around the …
Pain House (Mie Mortensen)
Bol’ is the Russian word for pain. It is also the first syllable in the Russian word for hospital — bol’nitsa. As opposed to the Latin/Germanic ‘hospital,’ which etymologically speaking …
Michele Seminara Launches Sara Dowse’s WEST BLOCK
Buy West Block online from For Pity Sake Publishing An Except From West Block FROM CASSIE ARMSTRONG’S DIARY 9 December 1977 I took one last look at night. It was …
Sea Country (Sophie Finlay)
wax and wane deep in the trench ancient reefs lie submerged — their skeletons remember when the cryosphere stretched taut over continents these drowned cities gleam grey like marcasite — …
Professional Dreamers (Gemma White)
10 professional dreamers do not show their ideas to just anyone no professional dreamers do not boast of their plans to unbelievers professional dreamers put on their black skirts and …
Bug pond (Carl Walsh)
Algae rusts the surface Daring us to become water treaders and step A water boatman sculls over the water — Charon ferrying dead souls Of needlebugs and backswimmers In absentia, …
As a First Resort, That Girl in the Snow (Rose Hunter)
Favourite wide, lowball glass Smirnoff with frosting, cold dear fur pour it in, pour it. Kiwi and guava, mix it in the colour of pale Pepto-Bismol, donut frosting and unicorns, …
Wings (Jasmine Ledesma)
Report Summary patient is twenty years old / hair curled with cherry stems / speaks fast as divorce / hasn’t slept in three days / patient answers questions with more …
The Reject Shop (Linda Godfrey)
The pills made you larger and that security guard at Westfield’s didn’t help, chasing you around, you thought it was the pills making you larger, you wanted to get to …