So Mister long dark long hair Mister heroin cheeks you’re back in my town tonight curing me from everyman with that sweet charm injection calm and loving embracive rejection …
The Interminable Suffering Of Mysterious Mr Wu (Rjurik Davidson)
Mr Wu is crying upstairs again. I can hear him as I lie on my bed, the broken sobs clear, distinct. It is as if he were here in the …
BREAKING: an interview with Rjurik Davidson
Rjurik Davidson is set to release his first collection of stories, The Library of Forgotten Books. It’s been two years waiting on a publisher to release it, but then there’s …
Transition (Sonja Meyer)
____A swing ___________set ____________________in a playground __________________________________in a park ________________________________________under a full moon and the empty swing …
Gather, Darkness (Jeremy Balius)
Part 1 When misery’s your partner, love’s just give and take to the sound of the window pane a-shudderin’. Gather, Darkness! and play your songs of heartache. Music box hums …
ASSOCIATIONS: an interview with Jeremy Balius
“Jeremy Balius is the Black Rider. He lives in Western Australia with a wife and children. From there he produces The Diamond & The Thief, a revolutionary online literary journal. …
I shoot you at the pond (Nathan Curnow)
for Kevin Brophy ideas grow like goldfish in proportion to the space they are given you return home from your morning swim still dripping from professor to friend, breakfast begins …
Black Lazarus excerpt – (Maxine Beneba Clarke)
It was close to six by the time Sonny finished up at the Basement. The twenty wedged deep down in his pocket, he made his way to his leafleting post …
Black Lazarus (Maxine Beneba Clarke)
It was close to six by the time Sonny finished up at the Basement. The twenty wedged deep down in his pocket, he made his way to his leafleting post …