I wished it were a phantom pregnancy. I prayed I was really Christine and had been impregnated by the Angel of Music. Or the ghost of Gaston Leroux. Not you. …
Blurred Impressions
(Callie Doyle-Scott)
I wish I could say that I had a plan. But when I eventually decided to say something… it was as if the awkwardness in my gut dissolved and carried …
Clue Five (Duncan Felton)
I’m hunchbacked over keys, typing faster than electricity, and I’m melting into the couch and the clackettyclackettyclack is the erratic rhythm of everything and everything is about to come …
GOOD LUCK, ALEC, AND THANK YOU
Nothing stays the same. Of all people, writers know that. In fact, it’s our bread and butter. Our job is to map change, to explain, as best we can, and …
ENRICHMENT AND ABSORPTION: an interview with Ryan O’Neill
LES ZIGOMANIS Tell me about your collection. RYAN O’NEILL The Weight of a Human Heart is a collection of stories set in different parts of the world and told in …
Scenes from Orbital Brides: The Lady's Request (Daniel East)
A cream-coloured door with two deadbolts ajar; through it walks a young woman in blue trackpants, her strawberry-blonde hair pulled into a ponytail, three shoeboxes in her hands, nails …
Mark William Jackson reviews Your Looking Eyes by Emilie Collyer
I’m not sure how I feel about the Australian Poetry Café Poet Program. On the one hand any publicity that poets and poetry receives is a good thing; on the …
Infused in Words: Emilie Collyer's Your Looking Eyes
Review by Mark William Jackson I’m not sure how I feel about the Australian Poetry Café Poet Program. On the one hand any publicity that poets and poetry receives is …
What Does It Mean? (Emilie Collyer)
O One One has One his has be One it his mean has this be One I it when his .mean something has before this Can be ? One the …
Eulogy for a Fisherman’s Village (John Smith)
I’d never thought of my father, Len Smith, as an imaginative person. He’d always seemed very practical and applied to the task at hand, so to speak. However, I began …