Issue Seven Contributor
May 24, 2019
Thomas van Essen is a philosophy and literature undergrad at the Swinburne University of Technology. An avid reader of speculative fiction...
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Past Contributors
December 19, 2018
Cheryl Pearson is the author of Oysterlight (Pindrop Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including The...
December 18, 2018
Denise is an editor by trade. Born in Italy, she lived in the UK before emigrating to Australia. She holds an MA in Bibliography and...
Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also...
December 15, 2018
Jayant Kashyap’s poetry appears in The Ekphrastic Review, Barren and StepAway magazines, among others; one of his poems was featured...
Paul Casey has published poems in journals and anthologies in Ireland and around the world. His most recent collection is Virtual...
Fiction • Issue Six Fiction • Issues
Good historical fiction draws the reader into a world from the past, bringing to life events, characters and lessons that often ring true...
Issue Six • Issue Six Poetry • Poetry
“The road is full of perfume. Urine. Bile. Death.” These nine initial words from Jayant Kashyap’s poem ‘History’ in this issue...
Issue Six • Issue Six Poetry • Issues • Poetry
By Jayant Kashyap * The road is full of perfume. Urine. Bile. Death. People walk the road, up and down, in high boots, heads...
by Kevin Higgins You knew for a fact, they’d never allow a pair of mad eyes with a pistol near the Emperor and his wife; and...
by Carol Major. Dian Wellfare is the founder of Origins, an organisation lobbying on behalf of birth mothers who relinquished babies for...
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by Samantha Pena Roshier ‘That’s the thing, Mary. They’ll tell you love is the most beautiful thing on earth and then they’ll...
By Reece Pye The next thing he remembers, after the bitch spat in his eye, is face planting on the footpath. There is a dull ringing in...
Issue Ten Contributors • Past Contributors
Reece Pye is a former undergraduate student of Swinburne University who graduated with a BA in Professional Writing & Editing in...
By Michael Aiken Beelzebub fallen to disease, absent himself willfully, to muster some inkling, some new insight born of nothing...
By Jack B. Bedell My daughter has been watching the news every night this week, anxious for word on the soccer team...
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by Savannah White. ‘Hush now, Lucas.’ A flash of light shone through the cracks of timber; Mama smiles at me before the light...
Interviews • Issue Six • Issue Six Interviews • Issue Six Podcasts • Podcasts
Oscar O’Neil-Pugh speaks to Katya de Becerra....
By Larissa Dubrowsky-Ryan Ukraine 1880 When Agraphena arrived, Nina was lying on the rough hay bed, her face pale. Sweat pooled the sheet...
By Reece Pye Ever since the passing of his dearly beloved Edina, the only woman his now crippled heart had ever cared for, the days...
By Cheryl Pearson In the late 1880’s, the body of a young woman was pulled from the Seine. The pathologist at the Paris Morgue was so...
Jane Clarke’s first collection, The River, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015 to both public and critical acclaim. Her second...
By Paul Casey stone turns to paper in her eye as she filters cycles of light into circles of paper stones her eye is a stone circle a...
by Paul Casey. 1. Just as the pillars meet a mile above the architrave A sky splinter plummets to puncture the floodplain A standing...
By Brian Jerrold Koester The deepest blue-burgundy you will ever see in stained glass, that is the colour of my love for you...
By Jane Clarke On the boat we were mostly virgins, we talked about who we were going to be – waitresses, seamstresses,...
By Sandra Renew 1933 lifelong partners charismatic lives no mention of the other in orbituary Stella was a...
Cynthia D. Nelson is a writer, researcher, and education consultant who has published extensively in applied linguistics. At the University...
By Marley Stuart If you asked Karo, he would tell you that he loved his younger sister right from the beginning. He was terrible...
Elisabeth Hanscombe, who blogs at www.sixthinline.com, is a psychologist and writer. She published her memoir, The Art of Disappearing in...
