by Elodie Barnes || I am not supposed to be here.
Author: Terri-Jane Dow
The Good Neighbours by Nina Allan
The Good Neighbours is an enquiry into the unknowability of the past and our attempts to make events fit our need to interpret them; the fallibility of recollection; the power of myths in shaping human narratives. Nina Allan skilfully weaves the imagined and the real to create a magically haunting story of memory, obsession and the liminal spaces that our minds frequent to escape trauma.
My Nature
by John Grey || I've visited the jungle many times
remains
by Laura McDonagh || I have been ebaying my dead mother's clothes
Stone Flower
by Madeleine Tomasoa || "What do you think of the sea?" Charles says, suddenly.
The Creations
by Cory Roberson || Eve materialized, all raven hair and glowing lips, from the rib of a man
Last Supper
by Angèle Eliane || Sat at the table
Calm in Storms
by Susan Hatters Friedman || The twins are finally asleep
Childhood: Redux
by Annabel Hynes || I tell her he’s beautiful even though all babies look more or less the same, round-cheeked and pink and squinty.
Hillsboro Bay
by Holly Day || The jellyfish flutter just below the surface of the water