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NEWCASTLE CREATIVE WRITERS


Where am I - Ricci Schwarzler
Where am I? I looked around me. Cabbages everywhere! WHAT? This is ridiculous! Where am I? What am I doing amongst so many cabbages? I don’t understand… Ohhhhh, woe is me! The cabbages beside me smile and their little cabbage eyes crinkle up. What? They’re alive? That’s absurd. The sky is dark. Dark grey. It takes all the blue out of the light and everything appears brighter and more vibrant. I stare to the heavens and try to understand what I’m doing with all these brigh
Ricci Schwarzler
Jun 17, 20242 min read


Cabbages – Carolyn Rudinsky
Far away in a distant land the most prized of all things were their cabbages. The cabbages were spectacular and were grown in all colours...
Carolyn Rudinsky
Jun 17, 20242 min read


Cabbages - Vesna McMaster
‘I didn’t know where to look, I swear.’ ‘What do you mean? She couldn’t really have.’ ‘I tell you, she was sitting there, dressing gown hanging open, holding two massive cabbage leaves on her tits, snot all down her face, crying her eyes out. I don’t know if I was more embarrassed at the tits, or the snot.’ Shery’s eyes widen. ‘Ooh. I see.’ ‘You do, do you? I didn’t.’ ‘She must have mastitis.’ ‘Glad it all makes sense to you. I turned round on my heel straight up but she yell

Vesna McMaster
Jun 17, 20242 min read


Cabbages - Michael Collins
from a cabbage to a king a story oft told a metaphor of transformation akin to transmutation... from lead to gold there was once a tale a...
Michael Collins
Jun 17, 20241 min read


The Cabbage Murders - Michael Sheridan
Detective inspector Jane Conway walked into the crime screen and immediately called her boss. “Commissioner, we have another cabbage.”...
Michael Sheridan
Jun 17, 20241 min read


Baby Cabbages – Carol Gano
Yes, that’s the story kiddies are told if parents are not quite ready to disclose the entire story. My kid has got a bun in the oven. Due...
Carol Gano
Jun 17, 20242 min read


Cabbages - Kevan Smith
‘Cabbages cabbages where do you keep the cabbages,’ Chef blustered and bluffed his way through the storeroom. ‘You can’t make a slaw without cabbages.’ He grabbed the chicken, and cutting it into pieces, thrust it into the pot along with the garlic, onion and the sesame seeds, garnish, spice and soy. The hot water was added and it all came to a bubbling brew while he dismembered the red cabbage and thrust the dices into the cauldron. Adding salt, pepper and paprika he mix
Kevan Smith
Jun 17, 20241 min read


Haiku - David Gairdner
Cockatoos forming Flight like snow falling, upward A song in reverse. White page like the snow Blue cabbages pocketed Ending at full stop.
David Gairdner
Jun 17, 20241 min read
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