i found his head in the washing machine yesterday while it was set on a delicate spin turning, rotating, flipping looking at me and grinning his uneven teeth chattering against …
The Professor and The Unnamed Stalk the Post-Apocalyptic Wilderness (Toby Davidson)
So much is silent beyond sand and men with pronouncements, low strains whipping at our boots. Furs, exposed skin slipping from precedence quietly when fierceness can’t stand the pathogen of …
WHAT SPARK IGNITES AN ACTIVIST? khulud khamis’s Haifa Fragments
Review by Amanda Hickey What is the spark that ignites an activist? Is it an event, a family grievance, a brush stroke of history? Or an undeniable truth that breaks …
The change: some notes from the field (Tricia Dearborn)
Perimenopause as a chance to get a few things off my mother’s chest my mother and I are not alike in temperament or constitution though at twelve she told me …
Head Space (Jim Tsinganos)
Jim Tsinganos was born in Peterborough, South Australia in 1964. He received a Bachelor of Design specialising in illustration from the Underdale campus of the South Australian College of Arts …
Do you come here often? (Melinda Smith)
Sydney, you flirt, you sandstone blonde with your wide blue eyes, your fringes of come-hither frangipani, your swizzle-stick palms, your blinding white mast-thickets bristling in the little bays. Perched on …
24-hour prayer cycle (Penny O’Hara)
For the commuters facing long delays and for the woman raped, allegedly, whose breasts were checked for DNA and for the one year old whose brain was rattled like a …
Blokeship (on being a friend) (Dominic Christopher)
When Griff first told me about Lil, I thought: where, for God’s sake where, am I going to get a kebab? I was hungover and frankly wasn’t listening. But he …
Ridley Scott’s Alien with Moth (Benjamin Dodds)
Ridley Scott’s Alien with Moth ride …
Whorls: Three poems by Ariel Riveros Pavez
Shellform spiralling to the infinity of a hermit living inside you home for aqueome little thumbling by shore pod for crustacean exemplary exploration and I take you to my ear …