Locative Magazine

A Little Home for New Australian Writing


Issue 4

  • Fiction by Nick Crowley

    Fiction by Nick Crowley

    Coral People “I remember a fan on a bedside table, blowing ripples across the mattress.” “And what else happened?” says Fran. “The morning sun was streaming through the room. Daria was next to me, snoring, her feet poking out the end of a blue sheet, and – well, that’s the strange part – the apartment Continue reading

  • Three Poems by Tyler Jackson

    Three Poems by Tyler Jackson

    Make believe Laying on a bed of stuffed toysgently strumming a ukulele my daughter’s head rested on my bellyI’d like to think her eyelids softly meetingmelting into something resembling sleepbut I never learned the ukulele sowe’ll just stay hereand make believe. Monotony The wooden stakespropping up fresh growth in the gardenare our microphonesafter our duet Continue reading

  • Fiction by Chris Browley

    Fiction by Chris Browley

    Where the Rubies Come From The sky had turned red. Not a blend of pinks and oranges melting until dusk, but a deep, violent crimson. This, as it so often had been, looked as though blood had been smeared across the horizon. And, at the back of his antique canoe, Harry the Jeweller lay with 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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