She had lunch with her brother. Halfway through, he said: “Last night I was heating up some hot dogs, and somehow I managed to put the buns in the water …
Heart attack (Leah Kaminsky)
I close my eyes, trying to reach my hand down my throat and grab onto my heart, wrench it out of its cage. Little traitor. It settles in, starts to …
Rilke was a jerk (Pseudonymous Jones)
Rilke says that dogs look so sad because they can sense the world of human meaning but know they are excluded from it. In much the same way, the reason …
The Funeral (Emmett Stinson)
Delicacy has never been my particular strength, but, for all that, I don’t see how it can be said that the incident at the funeral was entirely my fault. I …
Song (Pseudonymous Jones)
In a dream, Batman and Bernini’s St Theresa walked on a long green carpet that stretched across a wide and empty piazza. In the distance the colonnades were filled with …
A Moment of Falling (Andrea Goldsmith)
Jack has been hopelessly in love with Ava since they met at university at the age of 18. He is now in his mid-forties. Until the meeting in the excerpt …
You Were Lost Within My Sights (Lara S. Williams)
We flattened ourselves between the soupy heat shimmer and sharp yellow stalks running down the hill toward Cooma Presbyterian Church. Ants made ladders of our ankles, leaving bubble bites in …
Reply to a Letter (Wayne Macauley)
You asked me about Witton, I’ll tell you as much as I know. I’ve had him on my books now for a little over five years though the act …
The Chinese Lesson (Ryan O’Neill)
In the park, the old women were walking backwards. Watt waited beneath the enormous statue of a twenty metre rifle grasped in a clenched stone fist. It was as if …
A matter of balance (Vicki Thornton)
She pauses before going outside. Always she pauses. Wonders if this is good or right yet knowing it is necessary. She steps outside, shuts the door firmly behind her. Tiny …