Ella Meagher strode down the corridor of the Bon Marche building in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her long skirt billowed and threatened to trip her up. Her …
Shop Til You Drop (Jemma Payne)
It was Dr Hope’s last day in the country. The girl selling necklaces was barely older than his twins. She wore a faded Adidas t-shirt, and when she turned away, …
Joey (Deb Wain)
You shouldn’t be hitchhiking out here on your own, she says when she leans across and opens the door of her shiny four-wheel drive. The young woman she addresses hurries …
Blokeship (on being a friend) (Dominic Christopher)
When Griff first told me about Lil, I thought: where, for God’s sake where, am I going to get a kebab? I was hungover and frankly wasn’t listening. But he …
Frowny Face (Shannon Burns)
(Edited by Omar J. Sakr) Mother died today. I got an email. It said, mother passed away funeral tomorrow yours. I thought: Mine? Am I dead too? So here I …
In the Beginning was the Word (Joe Nuttall)
When I was about twelve, I went through a brief but intense love affair with particular words. I used to write them, over and over, in different ways, different colours. …
Darlinghurst Nights (Meera Atkinson)
The nights grew hotter and the air faintly sugary. Luna sensed a man just out of range. She waited. And while she waited, she read books from the library, sometimes …
Bo Peep (Rob Walker)
(Edited by Omar J. Sakr) Bo Peep lit the end of the hand-made cigarette in her left hand. Her vermilion cupid-bow lips sucked heavily on the lumpy paper tube. Loose …
Efficiency (Chelsea Avard)
Edited by Omar J. Sakr Monday. Eleven PM. Time to sleep. Today has gone well. As close to perfect as any flawed day can go. And all the days are …
The Anchoress (Robyn Cadwallader)
I had always wanted to be a jongleur, to leap from the shoulders of another, to fly and tumble, to dare myself in thin air with nothing but my arms …