Alby Bennett 4/29/26 Alby Bennett 4/29/26

I Have So Much To Tell You

In primary school I had a project on endangered animals. I chose the butterfly fish and made him the star of my live-action film.

William Winter 4/29/26 William Winter 4/29/26

Inner West Uber Pool

“I hated my old job. I was holed up in an office, and all of the people I worked with only talked about work. Work work work. I hated it.”

Soraya Moore 4/29/26 Soraya Moore 4/29/26

Offerings

Today, I have woken up in a woman’s body. I have yet to learn to use it.

Baxter Mitchell-Knight 4/29/26 Baxter Mitchell-Knight 4/29/26

The Universe is Not in the Cedars

So when I find my mouth drying up, when I want to substitute the sun for an egg yolk in the sky, I count it time to get to nature.

Allegra Pezzullo 4/29/26 Allegra Pezzullo 4/29/26

I have never conceptualised hell.

It exists inside sentences and Renaissance paintings; mouths prised open by angels, bodies arranged like furniture with the aesthetic restraint of oil paint.

Sophie Bagster 4/29/26 Sophie Bagster 4/29/26

THREESOME IN ABSENTIA

Jesse Carpenter 3/20/26 Jesse Carpenter 3/20/26

Amaneurosis

My hand is pressed hard against the window, and I am looking at the bloodlessness of my fingertips and the soft cracking off-white paint on the wooden windowsill.

Clare Casha 3/20/26 Clare Casha 3/20/26

The Keymaster

Maybe the changing decimal places send a buzz that fizzles down from the billboard into the cabling, through the machine and into buttons, shocking their paper thin flesh and pulsating through their nerves?

Ananya Thirumalai 3/20/26 Ananya Thirumalai 3/20/26

A Good Host

It begins inside me as a change in weather, a subtle dampness seeping into what I had assumed was stable internal architecture.

Rosina Carbone 3/20/26 Rosina Carbone 3/20/26

Good Enough

When my great grandfather died late in the night in Poland, we were pulled out of bed by our sobbing mother. Everyone quickly slipped into black clothes so we could comfort our immediate grandfather.

Annabelle Bullock 2/4/26 Annabelle Bullock 2/4/26

Love, Death, Knitting

I still had bell hooks. And I still had my grandma. Knitting’s always helped, too.

Rosanna Chim 2/4/26 Rosanna Chim 2/4/26

The Creatures in my Greenhouse March for Australia

Though some might argue that the roses had it coming, blaming their lack of resistance, too fragrant, too passive, too much.

Sonal Kamble 2/4/26 Sonal Kamble 2/4/26

Fawn

I dream of a deer drowsing, just like me, supine on the side of the road. I don’t know how I know it’s a deer because the figure in the vegetation has no head, but I wait to glimpse the curve of antlers.

Arwen Beaumont-Lee 2/4/26 Arwen Beaumont-Lee 2/4/26

How to figure out the way

Someone left their tarot cards and a book called Narcissism: Denial of the True Self in my room after a party at the old house.

Ege Yurdakul 2/4/26 Ege Yurdakul 2/4/26

11 November 2023

In my memories, we’re still just clueless children climbing water towers, alcohol running in our blood, watching the forest from above, under the summer sun.

Scout Harper May 2/4/26 Scout Harper May 2/4/26

How to be known

A brown glass decanter, bound in red leather. A sleeping pill bottle, unscrewed. A yellow pitcher. An empty toothpaste tube, A lightbulb, illuminated by cool fluorescence.

Allegra Pezzullo 2/4/26 Allegra Pezzullo 2/4/26

Confessions with Caroline

She left in a flutter of perfume, cashmere, and the faint clatter of keys. The diffuser exhaled one last measured sigh of peppermint. Dr Clarke capped the pen, glanced at the clock, and opened the next file.

Jesse Carpenter 12/15/25 Jesse Carpenter 12/15/25

LIMERENT LIGHT CONES

O my faun my hunter you are the soul of the whole room yes there is something in you in the curves of your cheekbones and the strands of hair; in pearlescent earrings, in the corners of your face in you, you are the edelweiss on the acme of Qaf or Meru

Roxy Lees 10/31/25 Roxy Lees 10/31/25

This Subway Sandwich Quiz Can Predict Who Your Favourite Philosopher Is And It’s 98.8% Accurate

Did someone ask you who your favourite philosopher was? Did you get stuck thinking of a name equally pretentious and performative? Answer these questions to find out what your Subway order can reveal. Instant ostentation, no thinking needed!

Soraya Moore 10/31/25 Soraya Moore 10/31/25

The Yabbies

I am drowning under the river red gum, slipping between mud and silt—who can tell the difference?