Creative
The Remarkable Quests of Raddish and Quill: The Sea-Venture
The University of Melbourne’s Creative Literature and Writing Society present The Remarkable Quests of Raddish and Quill, a collaborative column for Farrago.
6 August 2019
What We Talk About When We Talk About Exile
Background. Lying in bed later, gazing at the ceiling and feeling suddenly nauseated, I realised it wasn’t at all the correct spatial metaphor. Centre, I thought, was more accurate. Or, just, Beginning, Middle, End.
6 August 2019
Lemon or Lime
It was your birthday drinks last time her arm was around you. It’s only been three weeks since then, you were in Fitzroy at yet another rooftop bar, basking in the suburban sunset. Your gift came in a plastic shopping bag.
6 August 2019
The Fairytale Gazette
After damning allegations that Red Riding Hood left her missing grandmother to fend for herself in the woods, she has now pronounced that her grandmother has been found dead at the edge of the woods.
6 August 2019
How to Emulate the Love Queens
Found poem from The Naughty Book for Girls by Candice Hill, which maintains a 1.83 star review on Goodreads.
6 August 2019
Studio Flat
It’s a passive act to survive entirely on spinach & food textures more usually chewed in the thick of an apocalyptic-type emergency.
6 August 2019
Murukami’s Nightmare (808s & Fantasy Vol. 2)
Murukami sits in a sole green bog in an ashen wasteland, knees pinned to ground by rusting nails. His arms, detached, caress and cradle his head as an acid wind blows harshly.
6 August 2019
Back Home
I remember my mum’s friends gossiping (dark eyes darting, pink lips pursing around sour words) about another woman’s daughter who went to the USA, about how it ‘turned her gay’, “she shouldn’t bring it back here.”
6 August 2019
A Thing with Feathers: Part 5
You’re reading Hellboy in Hell—cornered in a pocket of the Brunswick library—the collected trade paperback of the original comics run. Hellboy is in Hell, because. He falls as a beating heart through the mouth of a petrified giant.
6 August 2019