The caravan heats up like a little oven in the midday sun. Jill is stretched out on the bed sweating. She is too skinny. Her little heart skips a beat …
War on Cheese (Warwick Sprawson)
The Federal Government will launch a pre-emptive strike against the highly addictive drug, cheese, to suppress its use in Australia, with the launch of its 19 million-dollar campaign ‘Freeze Cheese: …
Drunkest Man in the Room (Luke May)
She hunches over and tugs the skivvy from her stomach, but the fabric is wet and sticks with a thwack. Stepping inside she remembers how it always rains on her …
The Kite (Pierz Newton-John)
There is a church that stands on High Street that will always signify disaster. When Adam has grown up, he will dream of it again in times of sorrow or …
My Sheets Were Freshly Cleaned and Smelled of Lilac (Bel Woods)
She smiled that day, when I told her I was Yugoslavian, her bright lips an open suitcase – one of those soft slouchy ones with a saggy zipper – not …
Bear Vs. Plane! (Kirk Marshall)
We were sitting with calculable comfort at about 3,000 feet, our feeble human engineering warping from the relaxed atmosphere of our immediate surrounds, the cabin lights dimmed in a …
Otherworld (Rjurik Davidson)
Come with me and I’ll tell you something. I once wandered here, on this very street, alone with eyes like black saucers, with lips bloated, my hair wild and windswept. …
A First Draft (Ryan O'Neill)
Beginning- thief/work/wife [“She was always heavily made up, like the body in a casket that had been in some terrible accident.” She is aware of thefts. Main character- “All …