Fiction • Issue Eight • Issue Eight Fiction.
December 1, 2019
by Sue Robertson We were in our front field, shepherding our little flock of sheep. A motley crew made up of children, old people, and...
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by Samuel Bernard. The radiating aroma of aging books and mahogany grazed my nostrils as I brushed past mountains of pre-loved...
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December 15, 2018
Good historical fiction draws the reader into a world from the past, bringing to life events, characters and lessons that often ring true...
by Carol Major. Dian Wellfare is the founder of Origins, an organisation lobbying on behalf of birth mothers who relinquished babies for...
Fiction • Genres • Issue Six • Issue Six Fiction
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...
Fiction • Issue Six • Issue Six Fiction
by Savannah White. ‘Hush now, Lucas.’ A flash of light shone through the cracks of timber; Mama smiles at me before the light...
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 Marley Stuart If you asked Karo, he would tell you that he loved his younger sister right from the beginning. He was terrible...
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 Vashti Farrer It was a fella at work gave Joe the name and an address in Kings Cross. ‘Ask for Mick.’ Joe planned on...
By Elisabeth Hanscombe The Citizen’s Welfare Service was nestled among a row of terraces on Drummond Street in Carlton. My fourth year...
By Denise Ogilvie Every time the train pulls away from Spotswood station, passing graffiti covered walls, gentrified houses and...
Fiction • Issue Six
by Nik Shone I should have brought a coat. The moment I leave the house my umbrella flies away. Reminds me of Mary Poppins just...
Fiction • Issue Five • Issue Five Fiction
June 8, 2018
By Samuel Bernard © 2017 1700 hours – Eleventh of May, Nineteen hundred and forty three ‘Passes chaps,’ the corporal asked...
By Carol Major I am here in Malaysia with Hugh. I know we will fight. This is because he is the son of the last British Advisor in...
By Carol Major In Sydney’s inner west, nine-year old Crisanto is following Mrs Linden and Earl. He has been watching them for the last...
The Embroiderer can be bought at all good bookshops and online at amazon and book depository. During the early hours of Wednesday,...
by DANYELLE GUYATT A stage play based on the fairy-tale Hansel and Gretel (1812) by the Brothers Grimm EXT. ALEPPO. DAY Two siblings,...
By Anita Patel Ah Mui feeds me my breakfast egg—savoury brown laced with “kecap”. She mixes it in a glazed bowl patterned with...
BY SENAJ ALIJEVSKI After countless times of sending my resume to places that were hiring, I finally found one that suited my...
An excerpt from ‘Arcadia Abroad’ By Amanda Pearson November, 1993 The Irish Sea The boat is listing starboard, the sun, barely...
By Jeremy C. North Back in my war-torn homeland, everyone in the neighbourhood was like family. I couldn’t imagine life apart from...
Fiction • Issue Five
By Jane Downing ‘What was your very first memory, tell it to me,’ Frank commanded Billy. Billy lay on his stomach on the cell...
By Ash Leonard The stillness of the night air surrounds me, chilling me. I wrap my arms tightly around myself, but it doesn’t do...
By Antonia Schuster July 2017 In the concrete bunker the acrid smoke of the bus driver’s cigarette curls through the stale air....
An excerpt from the award-winning novel Pickle to Pie. Pickle to Pie can be bought at all good bookshops and online at amazon and book...
The Lace Weaver can be bought at all good bookshops and online at amazon and book depository. Birch Pattern Lydia ‘You will be...
The Tides Between can be bought at all good bookshops and online at amazon and book depository. Emigrating to Australia was the defining...
