Issue Twelve • Issue Twelve Book Reviews • Reviews
November 25, 2021
by Ferris Knight ‘The fact that gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns are invented over and over again, often by people completely...
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Fiction • Issue Twelve • Issue Twelve Fiction
Ian Reid PROMISES He was no longer sure of his whereabouts. He felt not only out of place, but also dislodged from the...
by Vashti Farrer They had swept Mother under their sideboard minds. Like dust. ‘She seemed quite happy when we left her and the...
Issue Twelve • Issue Twelve Non-Fiction • Non-Fiction
by Eden Young. There are roughly 6500 languages in the world today. Despite being a third-generation immigrant, I am fluent in only...
by Jack Hutchinson From time to time I miss my old man. But missing is just memory and memories are a funny thing. I mean, they’re...
by Shannon Blake It was too late to stow the typewriter and the photographs away. I could hear Keith stomping on the veranda,...
by Nicolas Brasch Eugen Bacon is a critical voice in Australian literature, one that probes and prods, questions and enlightens. She is an...
by Malina Douglas Cara felt tense. She had never done this, yet a need she could not completely explain had driven her to it. The...
by Daniela Abriola Betty Mullan—Monday, June 28th 2021 I hadn’t known my Great Uncle Douglas, but apparently, he thought I was...
by Radhiya Fanham ‘Do not mention it, my dear Eliza. it would give me immense satisfaction if I could make myself of use to...
Jahin Tanvir Absence Sergei sat upon the cool patch of grass, his torn trousers up the damp morning dew as he overlooked the sunset. The...
by Shawnee Neal Sitting comfortably in the corner of the American Bar of the Stafford Hotel in London is a small, unassuming chair...
Issue Twelve • Issue Twelve Poetry • Poetry
by Mary Chydiriotis (Lesvos, Greece, 1942) Artemis is small and nimble apron loaded with courgettes pockets crammed with parsley...
My family is very observant of nature. We know which plants are native, which ones are weeds and how old trees are just by looking at them....
by Lorraine Gibson I’m drinking ancestors’ tears, praising their liquid forms — sip, sip — savouring them oh so slowly in...
by Shannon Blake It is perhaps fitting that so few people are familiar with the origins of Halloween; it is almost as if the day...
by Nathanael O’Reilly I split wood on the back verandah while woodsmoke wafted from the chimney, watched Aussie Rules on Sunday...
Pauline Lewis Along a track so arid and forlorn Maree left behind in the distance A nine-hour drive to the infamous location To delve into...
By Guy Salvidge This land has had many names, some known and others lost. Europeans first called it Van Diemen’s Land and later...
Disproportionate Experiences by Devika Brendon It’s what we focus on that we make significant. We can drive ourselves mad By zooming in...
by Sam Morley I am in the shed sweeping when my neighbour knocks at the front door and tells my partner her husband is cheating....
Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Reviews • Reviews
June 22, 2021
by Angela Wauchop ‘Behind the ragged grey people and their own shabby infantry officers— … the houses are little more than...
Interviews • Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Interviews
Interview by Brad Jennings Hakim Bellamy is a poet, author, musician, playwright, actor, and community organiser. In 2012, he became...
Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Poetry • Poetry
By Jess Roscioli The beginning was bliss. A desire, with a depth – more forceful than the ocean we met along. Purity,...
Fiction • Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Fiction
by Lyssa Stevens The gun shots are relentless. Men cry in pain as blood oozes from their wounds, dripping down the walls of the...
by Bethany Cody Fat tears won’t flood the lake. A head full of summer memories. She stayed at yours, you stayed up late. Cut your...
By Bradlee Jennings Talaleu was the fearless goddess who wrangled flesh and air, Willing me into existence. Healthy yet homeless, I...
by Alison Knight The streetlamp is a thing of beauty. Tall and slender, its neck bows over the footpath in an elegant curlicue....
by Rob McKinnon Surreptitious stowaways to the flourishing city hiding in groaning ships from contaminated ports. Finding...
by Bethany Cody Born of the beach, a young man from Taffs Well, gateway to the valleys, an immigrant living along the flat shores of...
