Fiction • Issue Five • Issue Five Fiction
June 8, 2018
By Jeremy C. North Back in my war-torn homeland, everyone in the neighbourhood was like family. I couldn’t imagine life apart from...
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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...
Interviews • Issue Five • Issue Five Interviews
Interviewer: Savannah White Cindy Vallar retired from her career as a librarian to persue her passion for writing, now working as a...
Interviewer: Savannah White Hoa Pham is a psychologist and award winning author. She holds a doctorate in creative arts and a master’s...
The Lace Weaver can be bought at all good bookshops and online at amazon and book depository. Birch Pattern Lydia ‘You will be...
Issue Five • Issue Five Book Reviews • Reviews
Review by Madeleine Reid Aesop the Fox is Suniti Namjoshi’s first novel in six years, and those familiar with her fiction works will be...
Reviewed by Tamara Lowe The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, written by Shokoofeh Azar who now calls Australia home,...
The Tides Between can be bought at all good bookshops and online at amazon and book depository. Emigrating to Australia was the defining...
Issue Four • Poetry
December 9, 2017
To commemorate the Official State Visit to Australia 2017 by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, we are deeply honoured and grateful...
Fiction • Issue Four
December 6, 2017
By Errol Bishop James McFarlane eagerly absorbed the sights and sounds of Australia as the ship made its way up the Mary River,...
By Chris Childs I try not to retch at the sickening stench of boiled cabbage. The queue is moving slowly, but no one complains....
By Denise Ogilvie Caen station fills with tourists, all jostling for seats on the train to Pontorson. The July morning is warm,...
By Lauren Chater Carr House, Lancashire 1639 Eliza Stone was hot. Moisture pricked beneath her arms. A bead of sweat inched its way...
By Eleanor Limprecht He woke at the usual time, before dawn. Andrew closed his eyes again, pulling the coverlet beneath his chin. When he...
By Chris Childs I wake coated in cold sweat, my throat dry and raw. For a moment I don’t remember where I am. Then reality flashes...
By Belinda Lyons-Lee She stood in the octagonal room where she could see, as if in the middle of a spiders web, through the...
By Tess Barry Out of her twig-filled lungs a strong wind whirls she is a small stream obstructed a standing body...
By Tess Barry Eat lemon altogether, she says, cold go out. What you play? Luna Sonata? My fevered fingers stumble through...
(Bridget Cox Bishop, 1848-1912) By Geoff Budden J Cox and his five sons lost in their boat off the Harbor April 24, 1859....
By Geoff Budden At home in taverns, not in homes, you left when your daughter was four years old. Your own final home was a needle...
By Dr Wendy J Dunn Lest we forget The First World War They said Ground soaked With blood With countless dead Lest we forget Another...
By Jordan King-Lacroix I. On a leaky boat, they came, needing to change their name once, in the village to sound less Jewish...
By Jordan King-Lacroix The clouds, ha! The clouds! Did you see them when they passed overhead? So slow, like molasses,...
By Eleanor Hooker Ghost me. Fossil me. ...
By Nathanael O’Reilly In a centuries-old English church where Jane Austen worshipped, my daughter performs her role on the steps...
By Kenneth Pobo My grandmother’s house, weathered, a dirt driveway. When I visit she makes a cherry pie. I help her pit. She tells...
By Jonathan Greenwood This palace, ’tis a thing of splendour and class With chimneys of pepperpot and weathervanes of brass;...
