December 15, 2018
By Larissa Dubrowsky-Ryan Ukraine 1880 When Agraphena arrived, Nina was lying on the rough hay bed, her face pale. Sweat pooled the sheet...
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Fiction • Issue Six • Issue Six Fiction
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...
Issue Six • Issue Six Poetry • Poetry
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...
Past Contributors
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...
Natalie D-Napoleon is a writer, singer-songwriter and educator from Fremantle, Australia who now lives in California. For 20 plus years she...
Interviews • Issue Six • Issue Six Interviews
You’ve said in the past that you felt writing chose you. Where did it all begin for you and what motivated you to pursue writing? As a...
Patrick Stack lives in County Clare, in Ireland’s mid-West region where he works as a part-time Adult Education teacher and Web...
Anne Elvey’s publications include White on White(Cordite 2018), Kin(FIP 2014), and five chapbooks, most recently Il ricordo: six days in...
Jenny Blackford lives in Newcastle, Australia. Her poems and stories have appeared in Australian Poetry Journal, Westerly, Going Down...
Issue Six • Issue Six Book Reviews • Reviews
by Savannah White “…Swayed by her passion, the Creator granted her wish. The star was born in human form and lived a human life. All...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “For years she had imagined these plants belonged to the animal kingdom: hippopotamus; rhinoceros; agapanthus....
By Nuala O’Connor Frida Kahlo likes to walk in colour, but she is hard-pushed on Society Street. We wander together up...
Marley Stuart is an Assistant Editor of Louisiana Literature and a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars. His stories and poems...
Michael Aiken is a parent of four, living and working in Sydney. His first book, A Vicious Example, was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor...
by Cynthia D. Nelson The Darmstadt Year I read out the sign at our new base: ...
by Anne Elvey baíte tipiche typical huts formaggio cheese taleggio ...
by Jenny Blackford The lumpy wrinkled flesh of some great ancient beast a woolly mammoth or elasmothere lies mummified beside the Hume...
My first four books for Young Adults were ‘Dolly Fiction’ novels published under the pseudonym of Gerri Lapin. My first book under my...
Sandra Renew’scurrent project is on the interrogation of gender presentation and the LGBTIQAA gender discourses. Her published poetry...
By Goldie Alexander. Brett is setting himself up in the middle of Station Street where anyone driving past will see him. He’s brought...
by Patrick Stack A long way off Through fog that veils all else Faint voice is heard So faint no mortal ear Can catch the pitch Save...
by Vashti Farrer It was a fella at work gave Joe the name and an address in Kings Cross. ‘Ask for Mick.’ Joe planned on...
