To help you try something new, we’re running a digital writing jam from September 30–October 7 themed 'Cipher’. We are excited to be collaborating on this jam with the National Young Writers Festival.
It is difficult to sleep at night sometimes, with the hazy apparitions that dance like revellers around your bed. Spindly fingers close around your wrist and you are woken by a cold breath on your neck. In the stillness and dark, you fumble for your phone and send a few anxious messages. You are left on read at 4:41 am.
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A cool brine spills across the work in this issue.
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In the first time in the universe, this product can successfully induce astral projection most of the time.
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There's something I'm longing to return to.
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Jesus said: Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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I can either: fixate on my grandpa hypothetically dying / or fall in love with someone I met online.
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Your name is Perseverance
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Meticulously built, private and spacious. This beautiful home will impress you with it’s unique combination of gothic tone and modern features. In the youthful suburb of Voiceworks, overlooking the bustling Freeplay Zone, a home of this quality has only been seen on the market twice before!
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They’re at the gate… AND they’re off! First out the gate is the favourite, Mane Character, followed by Unbridled Emotions, closely tailed by Stirrupshit. Tough going for Hello World This Is Me and a non-starter for Skeletal Wire Horse Ridden By Daniel Radcliffe In Erotic Psychodrama In Bold But Ultimately Cursed Career Move.
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In ‘Reflex’, you will find ghosts in apartment blocks and spirits at vending machines. You will imagine piercing your ears and scratching your face. You will smell essential oils and the sea.
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After the beach, I sink into my enameled / fossil, possibly the first clawfoot bathtub / to have crawled from the sea, and chisel / at salt crystals growing between my toes
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Steps For Transmutation
Dip the body in brine.
Prepare the jar. Boil water at 100 °C and drop the jar in. Watch it gleam as it sterilises. Brand new again.
Pour the body and brine into the jar.
This special video event will feature readings from Sofia Casanova, Munira Tabassum Ahmed and Naomi Segal, a speech from editor Adalya Nash Hussein, and introductions from Express Media staff Jes Layton, Jesse Oliver and Magenta Sheridan.
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The moro reflex begins at 2 months, triggered by a sudden lack of support: flinging the arms open wide, pulling them close, crying. You remember tracing shapes on an infant’s palm—round and round the garden, like a teddy bear—and the baby’s finger curling around your own, reaching, holding.
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Today, on the tenth day of Spring, you leave the house.
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