Issue 3
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Two Poems by Tom McKenzie
Yearning for a Beetle (after John Millais’ Ophelia) For in that sleep of death what dreams may come ̶ ̶ Hamlet (Act I, Scene III) Robin Redbreast came to me last night And sang softly of her I demanded to know more And he opened his brazen little beak In it I placed a Stag Continue reading
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Three Poems by Ronald Atilano
Dharma The old man had to catch Dharma twice,chasing the black cat around his front yardfull of nettles, scrap metal, and ten othercats (two of them also black). It took himan hour, we paid him the hundred bucks.Then three of us had to slide the wriggling catinto the carrier bag, only for itto exit through Continue reading
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Three Poems by Stephanie Powell
Rescue That gait makes me think of all the rabbits she’s killed, true huntress,tonight, her toothless black and pink muzzle-mouth opens and I see devastation for small animals. But I’ve only ever loved things thatawe and frighten me. I draw comfort from her insistence to be at my side, to lift her head, to have Continue reading
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Three Poems by Scott-Patrick Mitchell
No Place Like Home This Car i. My daughter tells me to wear to my red shoes while she wears hers. Together, we dance around our home in a car park to beat the blues. Home is four wheels and a dashboard, petrol and a parking spot. Home is registration and a driver’s license, both Continue reading
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Three Poems by Hemat Malak
The Morning After a Real or Imagined FloodThe sun just doesn’t make sense,like a joke the earth thinks is funny.The scrambling to save my stupid stuff with my rolled-up bath towel against a swollen river. I could have satand watched it all float away,made a lemonade and pulled mychair up to the roof and kept Continue reading
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Fiction by Mark O’Flynn
Lost Vocation For his venial sins Lloyd Buckley spent one summer as a wardsman in the St. John of God Hospital in Bendigo. The plan was to save as much as possible before his university studies claimed his attention for the following semester. Philosophy and Languages were his majors. Lloyd had not yet learned that Continue reading
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Fiction by Soraya Defteros
The Picture of Marina The old man reached out for the railing of the tram door, gripping tightly as he embarked. He took out his wallet to tap on. A black and white photograph sat within it. “Kyrie eleison,” Efstathios said to his wife’s picture. He kept her in the wallet’s translucent sleeve so he Continue reading
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Fiction by Deborah Prospero
Los Santos Saben Todo | The Saints Know All Making it to the end of December, 1956 meant that Felipina would have been in bed for exactly nine months and fifteen days. For the length of a pregnancy, Felipina cloistered herself in the room her husband Andrés had long moved out of. She didn’t mind, Continue reading
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Fiction by Robert J. Boland
One Man’s Luck You may call me lucky. Many have and will again long after I am gone. But every coin has two sides. One man’s head is another’s tail. One man’s luck is another man’s curse. I have seen and done things few would believe, or even dream. I have conversed with kings and Continue reading
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Fiction by Moira Kirkwood
Thinner, Smaller, Faster It’s a cherry on top, as my mother used to say, if you complete your day in safety and in peace. One could think of Life as being like ice: surprisingly slippery even though everyone really does know what ice is like. You fall on your arse, oh yes, wet as well Continue reading
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