Issue 1
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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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Three Poems by Michael Farrell
Fastlove You barely arrive and it’s gone, says singer in rare tearful interview,during which reporters avert their eyes from the classical scene. The only competition is the image of sleeping under a giant butterflywing. The book is there: half-read. The game is being played. That day, I felt the need of a small, red apple. Continue reading
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Poetry by Samara Horne
Lila My nails were bitten back and my uniform bunched around puppy fat yet Lila was neat even in rebellion her prim potty mouth little elfin ears, “fuck this” with calculated irreverence, just before the teacher came in She loved Arctic Monkeys and Vampire Weekend did I know them? I would nod in faux familiar Continue reading
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Two Poems by Natalie Grant
Leaving We had a globe once. It stood on a plastic axis, slightly off-kilter, its map yellowed. It wheezed when it was spun. I have this vivid, golden-hued memory of tracing unseen paths with the kids when they were small. I can see how their hands held the whole world; how little fingers skimmed over Continue reading
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Two Poems by Lucy Dougan
How Fuchsias Look Artificial in a Good WayIM Tita GatrellWhen she diesI feel the needfor colourlike a child needscolour from cheap glitter pensuneven linesthat can never dryglobbed from tubes that give up the ghost too soonI want to print out her picturethe one in which she walks into the frame swinging at lifebeneath the huge 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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Three Poems by Neil Collis
parallel structuremoving to a parallel structure for self-deception and self-defencein the face of an uncertain futurehaving read the relevant literature on the cost of anti-establishments moving to a parallel structurewell prepared for misadventure ready for a series of accidentsin the face of an uncertain futureaware of the absurd and obscure existence informs essencemoving to a 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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Locative Magazine is a literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction and poetry. We are based in Sydney, Australia and have a focus on new and original writing from local, emerging authors.
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