Fiction
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Fiction by Rochelle Pickles
Text Baby The first time I received a text from my friend Sarah’s four-month-old baby, I was wandering the supermarket aisle checking biscuit prices for the perfect middle ground between taste and frugality. The screen lit up the side of my tote bag. Hey, it said. The top of the screen showed a number but Continue reading
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Fiction by Jacqueline Hodder
Polaroid Rainbow Move on big rainbow Go and fly your colours where the rain don’t fall I see the sunset over the saltpans now. — Sister Kate, from the album ‘Lasso Country’ Sister Kate’s lyrics hauled me up the deserted track, all the way to the edge of the tropics, a long, long way from Continue reading
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Fiction by Frank Marrazza
Blood and Black Coffee Here’s how I know. We’re out walking, when from nowhere, a pigeon waddles across our path – white head, but from the neck down, cigarette-ash grey. The delineation is startling, almost doesn’t look real. Lia freezes–I need to catch this, drops her bag and follows the pigeon, phone in hand. The Continue reading
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Fiction by Kezia Tan
It Was Always A Choice The sunlight streaming through the window glinted against the hairbrush in my hand. I smiled as I ran it through my daughter’s hair, as silky and as beautiful as the day she was born. The past eight years hadn’t dulled its lustre – none of the stubborn frizz mine Continue reading
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Fiction by Linda Brucesmith
White Last spring was filled with blossoms and badger babies. The good folk of West Sussex pulled on their boots and rambled. This year, people are taking tea and tipples by fires. It’s no fit weather for walking. But then, I’m from Brisbane. In two days’ time I’ll be flying home to the bright colours Continue reading
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Fiction by Mara Papavassiliou
The Disappearance at the Rock The road drones. Maggie leans against the window, the glass warm where her forehead squishes. The car eats up the road, the road eats up Maggie, and in the stillness she feels less upset, more like nothing. She watches the wetness of the wheatbelt and canola fields disappear as dryness Continue reading
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Fiction by Jane Downing
Love Locks Belle was only half an hour from home when she decided her bladder wasn’t going to make it. She pulled off the highway, held on over the cattle grid that protected the long-distance traffic from the actual countryside, and wound down into the bypassed town. The sun was low, picking up gold on Continue reading
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Fiction by Cameron Colwell
Missing Nick On the eighth of January, a week before my one-way flight from Sydney to Melbourne, Nick tried to get me to fuck him under a jetty. He held me against one of its wooden pillars. He wore raggy football shorts and a sweater with nothing underneath it, which I confirmed when my hand Continue reading
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Fiction by Coco X. Huang
The Marigold Princess Once, there was a village of farmers in a valley tucked deep in the mountains. They grew rice in long and wide paddies that criss-crossed the lowlands, a basin into which the monsoon rains would pour. But one year the wet season was long, and so the paddies flooded and many crops Continue reading
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Fiction by Brionadh Hassett
From the Offset Grace’s bare feet tap on the dashboard. Bowie spills from the windows into the quiet road. We pass an abandoned milk bar. A petrol station. A stockyards sign. —And if you say hide, we’ll hi-ie-ie-ide! Her voice is brighter now. —Because my love for you, would break my heart in two! —Gracie, Continue reading
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