“To the other one, to Borges, is to whom things happen. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and I delay myself, perhaps almost mechanically, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; from Borges I find out through the mail and I see his name in […]
How long did it take to know a person? Two years? Six? She’d been married to John five years, but sometimes she felt she didn’t know him at all. Or maybe she knew him too well. Michelle flopped back on the couch, head against the pillows John had carried out from the bedroom that afternoon. […]
In bed, a few weeks before Christmas, my boyfriend is scrolling through his phone after sex, looking for something to put in his cart. “Have you ever used a weighted blanket?” he asks, stretching out, back-flat on the mattress. “No.” I lay my head on his chest. “Want to get me one?” He looks down […]
“A shattered glass carcass piled up
on the asphalt”
The village folk looked up as the sky changed colour from a lighter shade of grey into a darker one. The object which was obscuring the sun was high enough to be a cloud and appeared denser than lead. While the object in the sky briefly caught the villager’s attention, it was only a matter […]
Sit on the porch, Normandy moors Stretch, dream of dried flowers with no fragrance, did they ever bloom in silent fields and wooded shades. Plateau yield overgrown grass, Stand there; Eyes stride across the end, Clear skies and shimmering stars, Green giant stands at the horizon It waits for you, it grows old. Now concrete […]
There are twelve steps between me and redemption. When I take the first one and see my death looming before me, yawning open like the mouth of a great beast ready to swallow me whole; when the end is in sight, as inevitable as the sun sinking below the horizon—I realise I am filled with […]
Our annual creative writing competition ‘Dispatch’ welcomes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. The winning entry will receive $250.
‘bhaiya, ek coke aur ek camel light’.
“It was simply imperative to understand the psychology of a man before roping him in and rendering him spent.”