Fiction
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Issue 4 Editorial
“Where we’re going” From the editor – thank you for reading Issue 4 of Locative Magazine, Honey//Lemon. This is unusual for me. I’m not usually one to do an editorial for Locative. I’ve always believed in letting the writing speak for itself, and I’ve enjoyed the anonymity, distance and facelessness that the online space (and Continue reading
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Fiction by Tara E. Berg
Spilled Milk Daisy Hamilton spent her life on the verge of tears. Any event, major or minor, had the potential to send her over the edge. When she was younger, she cried whenever her usually-gentle father tried to discipline her. She cried when she was called into the principal’s office for skipping school to avoid Continue reading
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Fiction by Madhvi Thakur
Homecoming Payal and Komal first met at a common friend’s engagement ceremony in Delhi. Komal was visiting India for the first time. She was only there for two weeks, and two weeks went by quickly when you had a line of relatives, nephews, nieces, aunts, and uncles to meet. “And what about us?” her mother Continue reading
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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
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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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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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