O boring dudes step away from the bar & let the rest of us get to the Brandy Stop holding aloof over the full ashtray Fuck off you fops, …
Chapter One: Early Fragments (Glenda Guest)
Gordon and Dorothy She was sixteen and at a dance when she saw him. It was, she said, like the song, across a crowded room. And I did know immediately …
Invasion (Derek Motion)
1 we’re phantasmagoric & over fed square (post eco parking post an ill-thought dumplings ploy & the odour of spilling soy) even to interiors breasting a ship’s plushie …
Dark Bathroom (Ivy Alvarez)
water fills your mouth as your glass eyes stare from underneath the tap — the old tub holds you cold and mute and your back’s warmth leaches clockwise down the …
Garage [hat] (Ivy Alvarez)
cold creeps in—a song seeps through the cracks it depends on your neck the tie of your knot how your toes swing your fingertips tingle your tongue says the …
AUSTRALIA'S NEW HERO OF MAGIC REALISM: an interview with Glenda Guest
In the literary world there is a propensity for prize-winning authors to be elevated – or to elevate themselves – onto a special pedestal, complete with pretentious black-and-white profile photographs …
Politics of Meat (Shane Jesse Christmass)
I am not eating anymore meat no bleating sheep diced & impaled on my spork but I haven’t got a problem with them German Cannibals that pop up …
The Cosmos Revisited (Alicia Sometimes)
‘If we go far enough back, any two people on Earth have a common ancestor’ Carl Sagan I sit with a postcard that a friend has sent me from Izmir …