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NEWCASTLE CREATIVE WRITERS


Laura Weynton - Lemon
Gemma and Michael are playing with a lemon in a sock. When life gives you lemons make lemonade. When life gives you trauma, become an...
Laura Weynton
Sep 81 min read


Kevan Smith – Lemon
“It’s such an easy subject—fruit—I mean there are so many all around us. They even name record companies after them. And that singer,...
Kevan Smith
Sep 81 min read


Vesna McMaster - Lemon
‘You got yourself a right lemon there.’ He stood squinting at the aging Ford Focus in the driveway. ‘Look at that! Barely legal.’ He...
Vesna McMaster
Sep 82 min read


Michael Collins – Lemon
“You can’t hang ten on a lemon.” This was an ad. I actually forget what for. Hang Ten may have been a T-shirt? Not sure. My good friend since primary school told me that ‘lemons’ were surfies. He was a surfie. Pretty sure the last type of individual ‘lemons’ referred to were surfies. The very last. I think he was confused by the ‘hang ten’ allusion which has something to do with surfboards and waves…though maybe I am confusing that with Deltans masterpiece… Hanging Five… w
Michael Collins
Sep 82 min read


David Gairdner – Lemon
- Citron is French for lemon. - My mother didn’t know that, but she knew she liked leather seating. In her sophisticated...
David Gairdner
Sep 81 min read


Ricci Schwarzler - Lemon
They gathered under the light of the blood moon. Well, it was a dull red light but a light nonetheless. George looked around at his...
Ricci Schwarzler
Sep 82 min read


Wenjun Guo - Lemon
Speaking Lemon always remains me of a TV show. There were a grandpa and a grandson, they were sitting at the waiting room as the...
Wenjun Guo
Sep 81 min read


Lachlan Miles – Lemon
Lemon, my sweet Pour yourself into me Revel in the science of A heart flung Ever-uselessly trying to be Free I’m out again But what is...
Lachlan Miles
Sep 81 min read


Carol Gano - Lemon
Who’s a lemon? I’m a lemon. Oh. Oh. Yeah, of course you are I can see that! But, you’re not green. You sure you’re not a lime? No. I tell you I’m a lemon. Just give me some sun—I’ll be yellow yet. Sure. That’s what they all say! And you should talk. You’re not yellow either. What colour do you call that ? I’m beyond purple, it’s called ultra violet. Pounce! The next thing you’ll say it that you’re a berry. But I am! I’m a Blue berry. Right! Aren’t Blueberries supposed to be
Carol Gano
Sep 81 min read


Elain Abery - Lemon
She held on tight… to her skirt, blowing around her legs and gusting upwards, outwards, sidewards. To her hair, trying not to inhale as...
Elaine Abery
Sep 81 min read
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