Fiction and Poetry

Expecting

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...

Jacks

In bed, a few weeks before Christmas, my boyfriend is scrolling through his phone after sex, looking for something to put in his cart....

Nervosa

"A shattered glass carcass piled up on the asphalt"

When the Ashes Come to Hunt

            The village folk looked up as the sky changed colour from a lighter shade of grey into a...

The Normandy Stretch

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;...

Twelve Steps

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...

‘Dispatch 2022’ | Creative Writing Competition

Our annual creative writing competition 'Dispatch' welcomes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. The winning entry will receive $250.

Dilli Meri Jaan

‘bhaiya, ek coke aur ek camel light’.

Friday

"It was simply imperative to understand the psychology of a man before roping him in and rendering him spent."

Lost and Found

“She had everything she needed: a little bit of laundry-change that she scraped off the dining table the other night, some water, her half-eaten lunch, a comic book and a tiny slip with her address scribbled on it.”