Hey AI, tell me about a cabinet. The AI said, “The Cabinet: A Cornerstone of Home Organization. Subtitle, A Comprehensive Guide to...

It was decreed. Munchkin-style that the New Cabinet members should not be evil villains. There, you have it: wholesome, sincere and...

My grandma in her late age, would speak to me of old loved ones passing. When she listed names, I would narrow my eyes, nod slowly and...

I sat in my office and stared at it. It stared back. I was always nervous of that look. I knew that look. I had a lot of documents that needed filing. But I was weary. The grey colour didn’t look ominous, but it was. It was deceiving. But the thing was cunning. It could feel my fear and it used it to intimidate me. I don’t know why it was so bloody picky, so miserable, so never wanting any bloody files put in it…it was a bloody filing cabinet for God’s sake! I acted nonchal

Medicine The mirror/bathroom Behind the visage Behind the glass and film Lies the medicine cabinet. I peel back the mirror’s face, to...

First Park Run in years Instils the rosy glow of A ripe tomato

INT. KITCHEN - DAY Landline phone. Middle-aged. TRENT GORMAN is on the phone. The house is cluttered with things. Trent is crying. ...

What problems to solve? We die, we die, we die, we die, we die, we die, we die, love. Personal troubles: Think solving life's problems...

Dark hangs at the apex of the swing, holding, holding. Silence of the drop of dew, holding, holding. Petals gently shift, twist, hold….waiting. Green blade bends under her alitrunk and mandibles. Feathers shaken slightly as he sighs, his chest expands, and settles. He lifts his beak, throws back his head and cracks the dawn to his splitting laughter to break the still of dawn.

Sit with overwhelm. Take a breath and give one back, life's only request.

The government claimed my house and designated it as an area for wetlands rejuvenation. It’s been 30 years since I last said goodbye to...

W.I.N.D. Women In Non- Domesticated roles She, climbed trees. She was not to be kept in captivity. She, danced on rooftops. Her nimble...

“Hi. I’m just ringing to check that my appointment this week is on Wednesday at 2pm, and not this morning.” “I have you in for 9am on...

Wind up the tomato, we have 20 minutes. What will you say, in your allotted time? Tick tick tick tick. Equivalencies of time to money, ‘spending’ time, ‘wasting’ time, apparently were not always made. I hear the concept was accentuated with the rise of Calvinist ethics of work equating to goodness – and the obverse of leisure equating to sin. Hard to imagine a ‘time’ where time is not measured. The carriage clock came around in the 1700s, bringing the blissfully diverse chr

Down the hill to the back of beyond or is it the front of beyond? Who knows? There were dark clouds gathering. They always did on a hot summer afternoon. They gathered, called in all their friends… little clouds, big clouds, high ones and low ones, until they filled the sky at the back, or front, of beyond. The air was still and the birds were eerily silent. The clouds were working on the colour. Greyer, and greyer, darker, blacker, and then the inevitable green shade. The

Downstairs ‘Rain soon’, Elaine thought. Elaine opened the windows to let in some wind. It was sooo hot. The wind stirred up her paper...

Outside this Wattle and Daub the wind is doing what the wind does best: blowing the trees every which way... including loose. And the...

The year of the snake: Its egg swollen and obscured. Cracked from fall or birth?

I returned to Australia from China. Last time I returned from China ten years ago, I dropped by to see my Grandma with souvenirs,...

Emotions like jewels Hidden around the house Nobody can find them I’m safe Nobody can get to them I’m safe Nobody must ever see them A bag of jewels My precious things Like diamonds, rubies, emeralds, gold Joy, surprise, trust, anticipation, Someone has found them They’re crushing them Sadness, anger, fear, disgust I must move them again They must be safe I must be safe Every minute of the day I must keep them safe Every day of my life Nobody must find them I’m always running