Patrick Chapman is a poet, novelist and scriptwriter. His ninth poetry collection, The Following Year, will appear from Salmon in 2023.
Douglas A Carlsen writes plays and stories. A short story, “Kites”, was recently published in “Flash: the International Short-Short Story Magazine”. It was later adapted…
His fingers once danced soft-shoe on counters, cast shadows on walls, and flew around rooms gathering storms filled with tales. Stories still wanting telling from…
In the bunker, Betsie sold kisses for bites of a sugar mouse. She leaned towards boys, dress swirling, luminescent buttons glittering in the gloom. Lips…
The gentleman has seen I saw him sink a chainsaw into another man’s chest cavity, even if I ducked behind my caravan window at the…
When visiting my grave, dance on it so I can feel the vibrations from your feet waking me, so your energy knits my bones together.…
In This Tale of a Suburban Tiger, the Part of the Mother is Played by a Bird – Gillian O’Shaughnessy
Your mother flies away today. She rugs up in her warmest feathers, her favourite yellow cardigan, worn soft in the wash, and her best plaid…
Gillian O’Shaughnessy is a short fiction writer from Fremantle (Walyalup) in Western Australia who grew up where the river meets the sea. She has work…
Sometimes fish swim around in the dirt. We squat down in the heat of the earth and watch them whizz by, small and shiny as…
Zoë Meager is from Aotearoa New Zealand. She’s had work published in Granta, Landfall, Lost Balloon, and Overland, among others, and anthologised in Bonsai: Best…