Beaking and clawing, they strew the ground where the glimmer of oil and hallucinations of petrol leak towards a broken bicycle frame. Benny threw it down, stripping the wheels, …
What Will It Take? (Gabrielle Bryden)
What does it take to get a bed in this place? You can come back if you have tried to kill yourself. How many nights will that get me? One, …
Brothers (Paul Hetherington)
They delved in mud under pines needles, rubbed together like animals, cupped black pearls of river water in nail-bitten hands, drank wind like a tart cordial. They tasted dirt …
The House of Wives (Jennifer Compton)
1. Ah – he said. Camogli. Casa delle mogli. The house of wives. Because their husbands were fishermen and so always at sea. . Or it can mean houses …
she died (Molly Guy)
lying face down (pissed) in a pool of her own vomit more than anything else as a child she’d longed to be able to see into the future
Peaches (Jennifer Compton)
Now you are making me laugh and remember. We had a peach tree next to our septic tank. Over the years the tree had dug its roots well and …
Onya Mum (Brad Frederiksen)
Hey Mum! Tell me what you think about this one. . “Something is wrong with a tradition when you’ve got a situation where the ones we are hurting are you …
Nights of Wine (Jasmin Shenstone)
We drink Our lips turn purple Our faces pink The conversation leaks From loose lips
Fumbling a Potato on a Train in Albania (Kent MacCarter)
1. Yanked crisply into movement like a trout caught napping … on judgement – its arcs the cartoon reel I suited …
Definitions of Phone on the Web (Shannon McKeogh)
He calls her sad like a heart-beat shiver cold, damp socks from walking on the squishy squash of slugs grudges like the smiles on cigarette packets tar, yellow-coated rot …