1. The fish and the bag (0’ 51”) Underwater shot of a whale shark swimming alongside a plastic bag. Graphic: The Gulf of Tadjoura, near Djibouti. The plastic bag twists and shimmers. …
Origami (Mauricio Palazzo)
Translated by Toshiya Kamei Edited by Kathryn Hummel The work at Gaspanic consisted of waiting tables, preparing drinks, making pizzas and hot dogs, receiving payments, making chitchat at the bar, …
The Give (Indigo Perry)
It’s the give of the earth: a shifting of clods under her running feet. Most of the children’s graves in the cemetery are marked with stones with names and dates …
The Gift (Peter Farrar)
(Edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) Bushfire smoke tasted in rain. I opened my mouth. Rain tingled, drying on my tongue the way it did on concrete. I stopped at the rear …
26 Outings
1. Friday evening, as my husband and I are getting ready for bed, I tell him I think I’ve fallen for a girl. That night we have passionate ‘I can’t …
The Love Scene (Craig Billingham)
Cameron got out of bed in a manner that would not disturb his wife. He stepped into a pair of flip-flops and put on a blue shirt, the one he’d …
The Monologue Adventure: Voices of Women 2019
Women have always had powerful stories to share. The everyday is their stage and they survive on a journey of emotional reconciliation within themselves, navigating both the society they live …
Plover (Susan McCreery)
Edited by Michelle McLaren About midday by the sun. She should have been an explorer — but what is today if not an exploration? Been walking for hours. Four hours. …
Forty Days and Forty Nights (Lindsey Danis)
Edited by Kathryn Hummel Forty days and forty nights: a biblical honeymoon for an interfaith queer couple. We begin in Bangkok on New Year’s Eve. Jetlag mixes with our hope …
Pike Position (Indigo Perry)
The wind scrapes ripples into the water’s surface and for an instant it has a pattern of corrugated iron like the roof of a house. Under full sun, the water …