(Edited by Kathryn Hummel) Your own eyes are king. —Estonian Proverb Sydney, 1991 I looked for her first in the garden where she would often be working—planting, weeding or …
The Warlock (Robert Feeney)
.1 It is 8:14 again. The alarm claws its way out of the chalkboard box in your head. You make a mental note to change the settings to a softer …
The Suit (Gabrielle Everall)
(edited by Tim Heffernan & Alise Blayney) When she sees people working, she feels like an asshole. She thinks of the construction workers and how hard their job is, but …
Unburied (Lauren Butterworth)
The Unburied climbs from her grave and all the little pieces of her fit like unshattering glass. The femurs groan into the sockets of the hip, the ribs crack into …
Paddle Boats (Katelin Farnsworth)
(edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) We sat in a paddle boat and ate cheese sandwiches. The water swirled slowly around us. This is nice, you said, and it was nice. The …
The Olive Pit (Lucas Smith)
When Janice agreed to marry me ten years ago, her one condition was that I give up active duty and take a desk job. At the time I was one …
Damboon (Belinda Rule)
It was just Suzy and I, in the end, who drove down to Damboon on the Friday night. I picked her up after work in the big old navy-blue bogan-mobile …
Famous for Asparagus (Jennifer Compton)
I had heard a great deal about the Koo Wee Rup pub, what with one thing and another, so, while I was staying with them, the daughter and her bf …
Werzy (Sean Crawley)
(edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) Most people think that Werzy is my twin sister. I did too, until Mum told us both the truth when we needed our birth certificates for a History …
Breakfast at Bethany’s (Craig Billingham)
Turpentine is a type of tree. How could Martin not have known? He’d lived in Bamberg for eleven years – he should have known. ‘It’s true,’ Anne said, expansively, her …