PERF
As seen on A Thin Slice of Anxiety When I was twenty-three, all I could see were beginnings. Everywhere I looked, everywhere I listened,...
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Dec 23, 2022
redredred
As seen in minimag Red is the colour of my lips when I smile. I smile so hard, so wide, so big that my molars pinch the inside of my...
Dec 20, 2022
Manchester Blues
As seen in Critical Disdain I told him I’d grow to like the smell of smoke. Like the taste of wine, the burn of green pepper, like...
Oct 2, 2022
Fluctuate
As seen in Catalyst Magazine We got the keys to the apartment exactly one week before the new year. The significance of this was mere. It...
Sep 22, 2022
My Father, An Island
As seen in Clean Hands by The Bowen Street Press When my father tells me stories of him as a child, I feel sympathy for a boy I’ve...
Sep 22, 2022
EAT THE DOG
As seen in Monstrous Appetites by The Bowen Street Press My mum calls them tall tales and my dad calls them fibs. I call my parents...
May 25, 2022
Violet Town
As seen in Fruitcake Frenzy and Backstory #13 They say he was here. A horse under his legs and the world strapped on his shoulders, they...
Apr 10, 2022
Five Hours South
As seen in Swim Meet Lit Mag Coming home for the holidays smells like smoked ham and smoked gum trees. Death rolls in through the windows...
Feb 14, 2022
Almost Bare Bottoms
Almost-bare bottoms on piss-stained bus seats because our woollen skirts are scratchy. Your mum took your hem down so now you wear it...
Nov 13, 2021
hello world
As seen in Ramona Magazine It was all just a numbers game for Eli. Counting up and counting down, days and cases and vaccinations and...
Oct 31, 2021
The Waver
As seen in Ramona Magazine “Up or down?” I hold my hair in a loose bundle of curls on top of my head. Cleo nods, understands the option,...
Oct 14, 2021
A Storm's A Brewing
“A storm’s a brewing.” I could see your breath last night. It danced circles around your freckles, playing ring-a-rosy before fading into...
Oct 13, 2021
lemon tree
You pretended to know the names of trees and I pretended to care. There was a lot of pretending in those early days. “Someday I’ll have...
Oct 11, 2021
SAD
Today is the first day all winter I’ve been woken by the sun. Her fingers slipped between my hair and the tips of them grazed my lips as...
Sep 10, 2021
Home for the Holidays
As seen in Ramona Magazine A girl who was no longer a girl drove the streets she used to ride. A different version of the same old tape,...
Aug 4, 2021
Ghost
As seen in Ramona Magazine There’s a ghost that lives in the bedroom next to mine. I only see her at night, when she creeks the...
Jul 14, 2021
the ladies in this house
Four. There are four people in this family. One two three four. Four is the amount of times my sister closes her bedroom window before...
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