Review by Carmel Bendon Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Readers expect historical fiction novels not only to evoke authentically a particular time and place but also to be accessible and relatable …
Hustling the Hustlers (Jenny Hedley)
In July 2015, on a normal night’s work, a girl sat down next to me and urinated on her chair. I shoved the dancewear I was selling into suitcases to …
Riding the Bus in Denver (Sheila Black)
I rode the bus in Denver. I rode it early in the morning and late at night, and sometimes I waited a long time in the cold wind of December …
Cracked and Riddled Sidewalks (Montana Rogers)
Tiny pinpricks of flaming orange light the night with a soft bronze glow. Across the still lake, dark mountains loom high above the city. The town center glows brightest, and …
Village Intellectual (Ewa Mazierska)
Whenever I would think about village intellectuals, I used to be reminded of my father. He had a relatively modest amount of formal education, consisting of attending secondary school in …
Filled with Memories (Brooke Madison)
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 — …