Adrian Caesar is an Australian writer with a terrific literary capacity, an engaging warmth and wit, and a deep sense of humanity. Born in the United Kingdom, Caesar emigrated to …
water weight (Emily Crocker)
the Baptist plunged her delicate but thorough into the waves rinsing wine dregs from her glass stem core contaminating the ocean with thoughts it’ll never be big enough for us …
Project Bali (Alice Allan)
(edited by Jillian Schedneck) Smiles, smiles—how the Balinese can project. – John Olsen, journal entry, September 1973. Mum hadn’t left Australia in 45 years. It took us six months to …
He’s Got Your Number, All Right (Kathryn Hummel)
I said: Sweetie, Baby— what were you thinking when you pulled out that double-headed match and stuffed it right back in the box? Honey! Child! As your Uncle I gotta …
Growth Always Growth (Fabrice Poussin)
Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, Eskimo Pie, The Chimes and will appear in other magazines throughout 2016. …
Reasonable Delusions of a Religious Nature (Tim Heffernan)
walking reality or phantasmagoria, desperate love on a rented bed. insanity or elated perception, a numbed litany that will be said. lie that winter freezing on oil stained concrete. …
VEGAS* JUNKY (Brent Cantwell)
sometimes I wish we could pick the drizzle and make peace with the relics of Vegas; one old guy tiptoes arpeggios my way muttering almost immediately: shoul’ be makin’ tracks …
Catcher (Hugh McMillan)
(In his log, D. A. Mowat, keeper at Killantringan Lighthouse, Wigtownshire, records counting 293 moths near his lamp on the night of 19th September 1913.) I imagine sailors watching the …
At Arms’ Length (Ceinwen Hall)
Artist’s Statement: Though Hall treats her subject with apparent frankness through her realistic style and the use of photographs on which she bases her paintings, the images retain a considerable …
Distant Music (Dominic Christopher)
Ella Meagher strode down the corridor of the Bon Marche building in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her long skirt billowed and threatened to trip her up. Her …