Issue Sixteen

The Generous God

By Skylar Lee Over the seas and past the horizon, where time and men were always young, lived a group of people. They had once hunted...

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Women Equality

By Samantha Medina Diaz Here is the story of how women fight for equality to have an education. A woman can be smart but also strong and...

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The Lake

By Kitty Owens Looking at an old photo of the lake there is a delicious moment  as I get my bearings. The shock of the old.   Throngs of...

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Easter Break, Murtoa

By Kitty Owens A pilgrimage. The Murtoa Stick Shed, aka The Cathedral of the Wimmera. Dusty roads lead to the urn at the gate. Fortifying...

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Near Parson’s Stairs

By Rob McKinnon London, 1 August 1801   Warm summer breeze caressing your young cold wet body, Who is missing you tonight?   Darkness...

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Under London

By Steve Evans London grows upward, constantly burying its past in layers for supposed progress or repair, but digging for a new sewer can...

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The Wedding Dress Museum

By Steve Evans one of glass one of water one of ice   one of barbed wire one of leather one of dust   one of love letters one of...

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Waiting for Change

By Isaac Law ‘I wish to go back in time,’ Tristan said, cradling the kettle, ‘redo my life with all my current memories,’ he...

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Hidden

By Joshua Dyson The things I write are buried, hidden because I’m certain it’s not good. Worse than that, I don’t want someone to...

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Wild Mother

By Deborah McDonnell The forest was deep and silent. Silent in the busy, noisy way that wasn’t in fact quiet, but rather lacked the...

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Smile

By Ruby Hanlon This poem explores the fragmented inner consciousness of a 19th-century woman struggling with rigid domestic expectations,...

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What Happened to James?

By Blake Stronell I know why you’re here. Skip your pleasantries, don’t bother with your name. I don’t care. Sit down, and don’t...

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A Witch or a Woman or Both

By Ruby Hanlon Trigger warning: Contains themes of death, suicide and execution by hanging They say it was me. That I cast a spell on that...

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Remnants of a Digital Age

By Ru Solis In the late 23rd century, it had become abundantly clear that the advancement of technology on Earth had surpassed the...

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Ysabeau and Margot

By Tom Gruer It had been a cold winter in the French commune of Hesdin. Fourteen kilometres from the site of the battle of Agincourt that...

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Survival of the Gulls

By Siobhan Lake Slumped on a park bench and still grasping the letter that had been sitting in her mailbox all week, Hilda accepts that...

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Is it Quiet Now?

By Rob McKinnon  Trigger warning: sexual abuse, hanging references (At age 21, Glen Sabre Valance was the last person to be hung in South...

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Pink Scene

By Jack Dawson I went once, in wet sandals  to a stupid sea I used to watch.  Atop a bluff, the daylight  chewed to pieces, to slivers,...

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