PARALYSE

As soon as I was sharp enough, my mum told me I was born under a red comet trail. She would remind me every birthday, how the rare comet...

Day 1: Day one of my 30-day forest fast begins. Let this be a record if anything goes wrong. The 5-day hike in was sublime. Neighbours...

Every move we make forward leaves a discontinuous shadow. To step away from your own past. We call to it with invisible language. Echoes...

It is an excess of people. Of places. And things. A buildup of waste. An increase in emissions across the board. A strain on the...

Would it have been better to have brought a torch or not have turned left at the crossroads? Sun’s nearly down. Didn’t bring any snacks....

All we have now is the feed of the algorithm. A bespoke retelling of realities befit for its content user. Tailored text has become too...

Dedicated to Liane Gough and Geneve Daniels It was there when I arrived. A full archetypal sun-fade moss green Californian timber...

Andy Knowmore left the cemetery and remaining family with questions surrounding the empty casket. He wanted to get at his family’s...

Night and day, two crewmates spend their time avoiding fish work in their hammock together. Lost at sea, with only a starry inkling...

It’s always great when you stay in instead of always being out. Lockdown has you bunker down to stocktake TP, HSP’s, and fresh streaming...

- Dedicated to an ol’ mate I used to think a lot of things. Like I had a safe upbringing. That people always tried their best. Or that...

It’s my partner’s family get together this weekend. So, I contract laryngitis. ‘It feels like I’m swallowing hot glass via glue gun.’...

I walk side-streets to avoid most folk, till I hear a call from under the curb’s grill. So’s, I open the manhole cover and slide below...

Paul boils water for dinner but accidentally drops the sauce jar. Scalding hot water flies everywhere, all over his face and arms. ‘four...

Hurtling down the highway with his floodlights on, Nifty takes a call by his knee steering and holding the phone. Barely keeping it...

D’Artagnan hunches over his breakfast place sitting as ANiON™ G8 his helper droid prepares brunch. ANiON™ G8, ‘I’ve got your eggs here....

From atop a petrified stump an earwig calls out to a fox. The brilliant blue fox approaches cautiously and asks, ‘I’m Blufox. What’s your...

- Dedicated to Xavier I snap necks for tokens. Tokens help pay for rent, food, and ammunition. I’m best in class. Parents...

Keyman’s Bluster Somewhere between 12am and 2, near it was March 13th, calendar said 1722, or maybe 2022. I’d had my interocular astral...

Courses for Horses ‘What’s the combination to the safe?’ ‘We only got three chances...’ ‘What’s your top three?’ ‘Day they divorced,...