5AM – Terri Cassels
By Terri Cassels The sun paints the world in gold and purple And silhouettes emerge from the skyline – trees, dragging their blackened claws through the sky. The day reaches, grasping, and swallows you whole.
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20%- Jessica Taggart
By Jessica Taggart The last 20% of power left on earth wasn’t documented by media in any way. Instead each and every human took the time to do the things they loved that they couldn’t do again. Like watch Disney movies, play…
Driving the Barkly- Terri Cassells
By Terri Cassells The heat of the day sinks into your car; your skin; your blood There is nothing beyond the endless highway and the brilliant blue of the sky.
Privilege – Kyra Bellamy
By Kyra Bellamy
Crawlers – Nina Busteed
by Nina Busteed “Found them!” I yelled, my voice bouncing across the mudflats and into the big blue sky. “Crabs?” dad responded, his sunnies sparkling in my direction from about a hundred metres away. “Yeah!” There had to be thousands of them; tiny, ten-legged blurs of blue, white and yellow. Soldier crabs! Small troupes sprinted in every direction. It looked like…
The Happiest Place on Earth- Anonymous
By Anonymous My friends wave goodbye as they join the lengthy queue for the tall ride I can’t conquer. I have some time to kill and my inner child sees me on a mission for Mickey Mouse ears. Unsurprisingly, it doesn’t take long before I’m standing in front of an array of…
An Ode to the Botanic Bar- Zoe Mauerhan
By Zoe Mauerhan Classes were finished Day was drawing to a close Time to travel home Corner of my eye On the way to the Goodwill It calls to my heart Rum, Scotch or Bourbon How about a jug to…
But first, hope must die- Laura Harland
By Laura Harland There is a saying about doors, we all know it, it goes something like this: “Sometimes we have to close a door for a new one to open”. I used to see the world through a lens…
“This country is so shit” and other stuff I’m sick of hearing- Daniel Martinez-Lopez
By Daniel Martinez-Lopez Australia isn’t perfect – in fact there is a lot of work that needs to be done both policy and cultural wise. Climate Change, the wellbeing of our Indigenous community and many other issues have failed to make some Australians proud…
A feminist guide to reading comic books- Kat Langton
By Kat Langton *Content Warning* Sexual Assault, Rape First of all, let’s deal with the elephant in the room. The pink one, the one who hates men, with the unshaven legs, the checkered shirt and the short hair, swinging a burning bra…
