Transgress by Nikolai Lysewycz: I’d like to go outside.   It’s dark out. Luminescent leaves glisten, trembling in the wind. A wild silhouette in the garden is bordered by yellow light; ’s’curious, the contrast.   I’d like to go outside.   I tried once,...

Short story by Christopher Kelly: The Richmond via Parramatta express was 37 seconds late on its schedule, as usual. And confined within the insidiously spacious tube were people, decidedly unfazed by the idea that this Monday morning screams De Ja Vu. Some slumped...

By Jenyfer Joy: On the 28th of June this year, I packed my bags and flew off to Cambodia. I departed from a very cold, frosty Sydney at 4 am and by the time I arrived in Phnom Penh, it was a boiling 37 degrees. It’s been exactly two weeks since my arrival in Cambodia....

By Bec Foley: The setting Autumn in the blue mountains is nature’s mardi gras. The stoic Japanese maple trees of summer become camp, attention-seeking centre-pieces clad outrageously in electric red. The trees look as if they’re on fire. Little wonder this...

By Curtis Mayfield M-H: Hip-hop outfit Master Wolf launched the new single ‘Never Question The Dopeness’ on May 9 at Redfern’s Hustle & Flow Bar. The lineup of this “group” varies, as it is the strange brainchild of rapper MC Skinz. It might be right to call...

By Brendan Gapper: Paradise, my arse. Midnight at the emergency department and the clouds parted to reveal the full moon.  The nurse stubbed out her smoke and headed back inside.  She was supposed to leave hospital grounds to have a cigarette, but she thought “fuck...

By Phillip Langlade: