Issue Fourteen • Issue Fourteen Non-Fiction • Non-Fiction
June 6, 2023
Number One Story Street By Claire Baxter John I remember Christmas day. It might have been Christmas 1940 – maybe 1939 – when...
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Fiction • Issue Fourteen • Issue Fourteen Fiction
The Golden Apple Eric Tian It took place at midnight, on the field across the bank. My acquaintance stepped out of the boat,...
The Magic Cow Eric Tian The cow came in March. By May, it was all over. I must write this down so I, too, do not forget our history. It...
Diamond Beach Days Angela Fitzpatrick 1965 Daisy sat at the café table gazing out the window at the promenade as tears ran down...
Issue Fourteen • Issue Fourteen Poetry • Poetry
Lingchi Jon Culp i Inherited a pair of right-handed scissors- from depths of the basket of twist-thread and patterns beside...
Irish Green Ann Kathryn Kelly I am from an Irish Clan’s love, strong as bedrock, deep as ocean. The baby in the family almost...
CONTENT WARNING : This work contains material that some readers may find disturbing; please continue at your own discretion. Confession at...
In Search of Identity Rose Saltman In 1994, I voted in the elections of two countries. I was a citizen of only one of them. ...
Issue Fourteen Contributors • Issue Fourteen Contributors • Past Contributors
Eric is a medical student from Melbourne that reads and writes to better understand the world. He is interested in psychiatry and the...
Rose Saltman is an urban planner, writer and editor who lives in Sydney, Australia. She has a Master of Arts in Non-fiction Writing from...
Angela studied Creative Writing with the Open University and recently embarked on an MLitt with University of Glasgow. She is the editor of...
Jon Culp began writing in the high mountain desert of North Central Washington. He and his wife of 30 years now live in Bellingham where...
Ann Kathryn Kelly writes from New Hampshire’s Seacoast region. She’s an editor with Barren Magazine, a columnist with WOW! Women on...
A HISTORY OF CHESS Mark Mitchell I am still a victim of chess… —Marcel Duchamp I was not born under stone mountains in...
This Peter Loveday If all the lines begin with who, or why, or how pointing directly at what they want to know what hope is there in...
June 3, 2023
Claire Baxter has lived in various suburbs in Melbourne, including Parkville, where the story is set. She has an interest in time,...
Mark J. Mitchell has worked in hospital kitchens, fast food, retail wine and spirits, conventions, tourism, and warehouses. He has also...
Peter Loveday is a writer and singer-songwriter born in Toowoomba, Australia and living in Barcelona. Author of short story collections;...
Anne Collins writes poetry and creative non-fiction. Her sixth book is collection of poetry and prose with Spanish themes titled Listening...
Fiction • Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Fiction
May 24, 2022
By Penny George “I’m pregnant,” she said. Gabriel stood frozen. “Isn’t that wonderful news babe? I mean, of course, it’s a...
By Alison Knight They’ll be coming to fetch me soon. It’s me big day! Lots of people out there. I can hear them through me window....
Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Non-Fiction • Non-Fiction
By Peter Mitchell (1985) It was January. The party at the Wellington Boot raged into the night. Platters of food were spread around the...
By Jane Downing Rita put her lesson plan to one side in frustration. Her cup of tea was cold. In one way there was too much material on the...
Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Book Reviews • Reviews
By Chloe Britton Written by Professors Katy Barnett and Jeremy Gans from the law school of the University of Melbourne, Guilty Pigs is a...
By Juliett Salom They say he was here. A horse under his legs and the world strapped on his shoulders, they say he came to rob and steal...
Interviews • Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Interviews
By Matthew Goodall Craig Sherborne is a poet, playwright, and novelist. His debut memoir Hoi Polloi was shortlisted for both the Queensland...
By Peter Loveday We climb up into the branches of the old tree, twist off the mandarins and launch them high into the air where they grow...
by Lilanka Botejue “I am not in my right senses. Those eyes, those lips and those beautifully wide hips have long been my lure and my...
By Devika Brendon A long time ago, nearly a quarter of a century, now, I visited Iceland, during the brief summer, a place and time where...
Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Poetry • Poetry
By Joshua Klarica Even though I have stood here more times than I could count, in the chattering cold of mid-winters dawn, and bleaks...
