I hail a motodop. He’s like, ‘Four dollars.’ And I say, ‘No, I live here, it’s two and a half.’ And he asks, ‘There and back?’ I’m …
Benefits of Anticipatory Grief (Janet Frishberg)
I’ve forgotten my voice waiting for her to die. I came to say goodbye but I don’t believe it’s time yet and neither does she. Six days ago in San …
The Coast Road (Nicholas Brooks)
I started doing it, I guess, because Dad was always working over the school holidays, and because it seemed harmless enough to me. Of course I’d heard the stories about …
Andres and the Jinns (Jillian Schedneck)
‘Miss, WALLAH, it’s true. They are everywhere. Every time you hear a noise in your house, or your TV stops working, or your computer beeps…’ Hana paused dramatically. ‘It’s a …
Cultural Submissions (Caroline Reid)
I’m calling in to see someone in a world grownups know nothing about sitting snug on their living-room couches. The thing about that is this: I think it doesn’t matter, …
Virtual Baby (Libbie Chellew)
There was a bottle half-full with formula on the floor in front of the Vulcan, a pile of unfolded washing on the other end of the couch and a full …
The Exclusivity of Cupcakes: How I Cooked My Way through Heartbreak (Erin Holmwood)
Kissing don’t last: cookery do — George Meredith On the day Max broke my heart, I baked a cake. While I greased and lined the spring-form cake pan I thought to …
Dancers in Violet (Tristan Foster)
First time I left her home, I looked up and a stiff fruit-bat was dangling from the electrical wire. Next time I left her home, the bat was in the …
Sound bites (John Clanchy)
Three words. Three tiny, banal words that had somehow – among the tens of thousands of others spilt in the cafe that morning – made their way through the clashing …
Watch Every Drop: a community service announcement composed for those who survived the Fall (Kirk Marshall)
There’d never come a newly-minted, indignant crimson-kissed day in this place which didn’t evoke some dark, frost-sorry memories to that time when we still had water. I can’t speak for …