Nairouz, a Palestinian woman from Haifa in her 40s, has to make room in her too-busy life, to care for her disabled mother for six weeks, when the Second Lebabon …
Comet Child (Judyth Emanuel)
Child I was under the weight of dark dark universes. Heavy weighed a lot of scary roars chucked at me but in my mind. Grew short too small for age …
Hello Dolly (Rebecca Jessen)
It is at once an ordinary and extraordinary Sunday. I am at home in Toowoomba with my girlfriend, and most of the daylight hours are spent assembling an IKEA flat …
The Chrome Pony (Scout Fisher)
It’s easy to question your sexuality when you wake up for your morning piss and have to clean the glitter out of your foreskin. Or when sequined dresses give you …
Sanctuary (Linda Godfrey)
Sticking out of the grey and white choppy water are four grey and white shapes. Not waves; they don’t break and roll to the shore. It has to be more …
Made For You (David Adès)
‘You’re not good enough for any woman,’ Miranda screamed. ‘What you need isn’t a woman: it’s a blow-up doll.’ Even Chester acknowledged it wasn’t his finest moment. Whatever heat there …
OUTSIDERS, INSIDE OUT (Amanda Hickey)
(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 …