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  • NON-FICTION
    • Magnolia Boys
      Magnolia Boys
    • I Take My Virtual Body to the Sistine Chapel
      I Take My Virtual Body to the Sistine Chapel
    • It’s OK if I spill milk as long as it was my idea
      It’s OK if I spill milk as long as it was my idea
  • FICTION
    • Springsteen Down Aisle Five
      Springsteen Down Aisle Five
    • Polished
      Polished
    • Translucence
      Translucence
  • POETRY
    • As Rachel, As Sarah
      As Rachel, As Sarah
    • Tongue With Teeth
      Tongue With Teeth
    • Soul And Body
      Soul And Body
  • CULTURE
    • I Take My Virtual Body to the Sistine Chapel
      I Take My Virtual Body to the Sistine Chapel
    • Mapping out The O.C.
      Mapping out The O.C.
    • POLLYANNA-ISH III: AND YET
      POLLYANNA-ISH III: AND YET
  • COLUMNS
    • IF I’M A WATER-BEARING AIR SIGN DOES THAT MAKE ME PERSPIRATION?: DECEMBER
      IF I’M A WATER-BEARING AIR SIGN DOES THAT MAKE ME PERSPIRATION?: DECEMBER
    • IF I’M A WATER-BEARING AIR SIGN DOES THAT MAKE ME PERSPIRATION?: NOVEMBER
      IF I’M A WATER-BEARING AIR SIGN DOES THAT MAKE ME PERSPIRATION?: NOVEMBER
    • IF I’M A WATER-BEARING AIR SIGN DOES THAT MAKE ME PERSPIRATION?: OCTOBER
      IF I’M A WATER-BEARING AIR SIGN DOES THAT MAKE ME PERSPIRATION?: OCTOBER
  • COMICS
    • Epilogue
      Epilogue
    • Doggy BFFs
      Doggy BFFs
    • MegaHertz
      MegaHertz
COLUMNSJanuary 28, 2021

IF I’M A WATER-BEARING AIR SIGN DOES THAT MAKE ME PERSPIRATION?: DECEMBER

By Jasmine Shirrefs

I’m a fancy adult with a set of fancy kitchen knives, so I used the old op shop kitchen knife to hack at the…

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POETRYJanuary 9, 2021

As Rachel, As Sarah

By Madeleine Dale

I am leaving Lileahalong an empty farm road: ice-grabbeddairy grass, a devil smashed on the asphalt—the clean pipe of its femur hollowly becoming. Emptiness…

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POETRYJanuary 8, 2021

Tongue With Teeth

By Audra Puchalski

Unnerving, the shell. Perhapsterrible, the broad, muscular foot, my legume of possibility, my knot of protein anchoredin a soup. Just a plain soup. I…

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COLUMNSDecember 23, 2020

IF I’M A WATER-BEARING AIR SIGN DOES THAT MAKE ME PERSPIRATION?: NOVEMBER

By Jasmine Shirrefs

The itch to be social returned, not the fear of missing out so much as a peer pressure. Recall the lift in lockdown some…

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COLUMNSDecember 22, 2020

IF I’M A WATER-BEARING AIR SIGN DOES THAT MAKE ME PERSPIRATION?: OCTOBER

By Jasmine Shirrefs

In Rural Victoria, my sister went to the beach for her birthday. Which felt bizarre considering that I could only go within 5km of…

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POETRYDecember 5, 2020

Soul And Body

By Janet Jiahui Wu

you pay and I uplift youyou live and I outlive youyou die and I defeat youin tombstones carving and carbon printingand nano-ink technology on…

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NON-FICTIONDecember 1, 2020

Magnolia Boys

By Clare Millar

I say, you’ve got to hear this one album no one knows about. My mind is grooving right on the coffee table, if only my legs could follow.

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POETRYNovember 28, 2020

People Bring Things Home

By Bronte Heron

M. carried in three ceramic mallardswrapped in his jersey, their green facesrigid and unblinkingon the shelf of his arms. They were as significant as…

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POETRYNovember 23, 2020

HOW TO LOVE LIKE A HORSE

By Shastra Deo

after Mindy Gill’s ‘A Kind of Paradise’ What I know about desire is horseswho aren’t hungry can’t be ownedby anyone. The horse, she bows…

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