By R.J. King ​ Lacroix ties Dessicate Beneath my bladed hands. China cups Detonate Creating Dresden rain. In the garden Our marriage bed...

By R.J. King 'You have a pulse' The doctor said Pressing two fingers Against my beating soul 'And that's a bonus' (Image by Marcelo Leal...

By Ranee Mischlewski When Vanessa decided to take in a boarder she didn’t know about accommodation sites so she advertised in the local...

By Ranee Mischlewski Quince oh quince My downy yellow prince of autumn fruits, Cydonia oblonga, Persian apple , Adam’s apple (Why didn’t...

By Ranee Mischlewski I found it about five years ago on the lawn in the back yard near the lemon tree. By lawn I mean patches of dirt,...

By Patricia Poppenbeek I have always been one or two people away from access to marijuana and hard drugs. I’ve always known Stewart*...

By Loretta Smith We built our first house on the drained wetlands of Aspendale, a southern beachside suburb of Melbourne. It was...

By Loretta Smith Alice Elizabeth Foley Anderson, born in Melbourne in 1897, entered a world on the brink of “modernisation”: Australia...

By Leonie Weaver It was a time of drought. Ruth longed for the smell of rain, for the build up of clouds on the horizon, the sudden...

By Leonie Weaver A crow flew into the prison yard. Gleaming black and lusciously fat, it landed on the dry grass, a little away from...