Editorial Team • Issue Thirteen Editorial Team
June 6, 2023
Ryu is a writing student at Swinburne, born and raised in Melbourne’s south. From a young age he has held a strong love of contemporary...
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Issue Fourteen • Issue Fourteen Poetry • Poetry
CONTENT WARNING : This work contains material that some readers may find disturbing; please continue at your own discretion. Confession at...
things, in places Maria Griffin here, a thing. behind it: another. there, a third. three things sit, each in its place, as if...
Irish Green Ann Kathryn Kelly I am from an Irish Clan’s love, strong as bedrock, deep as ocean. The baby in the family almost...
Lingchi Jon Culp i Inherited a pair of right-handed scissors- from depths of the basket of twist-thread and patterns beside...
Fiction • Issue Fourteen • Issue Fourteen Fiction
Diamond Beach Days Angela Fitzpatrick 1965 Daisy sat at the café table gazing out the window at the promenade as tears ran down...
The Magic Cow Eric Tian The cow came in March. By May, it was all over. I must write this down so I, too, do not forget our history. It...
The Golden Apple Eric Tian It took place at midnight, on the field across the bank. My acquaintance stepped out of the boat,...
Issue Fourteen • Issue Fourteen Non-Fiction • Non-Fiction
Number one story street By Claire Baxter John I remember Christmas day. It might have been Christmas 1940 – maybe 1939 – when...
In search of identity Rose Saltman In 1994, I voted in the elections of two countries. I was a citizen of only one of them. ...
Contributors • Issue Fourteen Contributors • Past Contributors
Eric is a medical student from Melbourne that reads and writes to better understand the world. He is interested in psychiatry and the...
Maria’s writing practice includes essays, exhibition texts, reviews and poetry. Her writing has recently appeared in Slippage Lit, Ghost...
Ann Kathryn Kelly writes from New Hampshire’s Seacoast region. She’s an editor with Barren Magazine, a columnist with WOW! Women on...
Jon Culp began writing in the high mountain desert of North Central Washington. He and his wife of 30 years now live in Bellingham where...
Angela studied Creative Writing with the Open University and recently embarked on an MLitt with University of Glasgow. She is the editor of...
Rose Saltman is an urban planner, writer and editor who lives in Sydney, Australia. She has a Master of Arts in Non-fiction Writing from...
Van is a student of Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne, and she is completing diploma at the end of this year. She loves reading...
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Laura is currently undertaking a diploma of professional writing and editing at Swinburne university. A passionate story teller from a...
A HISTORY OF CHESS Mark Mitchell I am still a victim of chess… —Marcel Duchamp I was not born under stone mountains in...
This Peter Loveday If all the lines begin with who, or why, or how pointing directly at what they want to know what hope is there in...
June 3, 2023
Mark J. Mitchell has worked in hospital kitchens, fast food, retail wine and spirits, conventions, tourism, and warehouses. He has also...
Claire Baxter has lived in various suburbs in Melbourne, including Parkville, where the story is set. She has an interest in time,...
Peter Loveday is a writer and singer-songwriter born in Toowoomba, Australia and living in Barcelona. Author of short story collections;...
Anne Collins writes poetry and creative non-fiction. Her sixth book is collection of poetry and prose with Spanish themes titled Listening...
Brody is an aspiring author and student of the Diploma of professional writing and editing. Brody has worked as an editor and website...
Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Poetry • Poetry
May 24, 2022
By Jesse Fleming “J.J. Astor, the richest man on board and a pariah in American polite society, was redeemed by his self-sacrificing...
By Magdalena Ball Her grandparents were forced to take last names. How to choose: occupation, toponym, personal qualities, lineage?...
By Joshua Klarica Even though I have stood here more times than I could count, in the chattering cold of mid-winters dawn, and bleaks...
Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Non-Fiction • Non-Fiction
By Devika Brendon A long time ago, nearly a quarter of a century, now, I visited Iceland, during the brief summer, a place and time where...
Fiction • Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Fiction
by Lilanka Botejue “I am not in my right senses. Those eyes, those lips and those beautifully wide hips have long been my lure and my...