word arrangements.

ghost.

2009-07-22T14:21:50Z

i wake up because i feel like somebody is watching me. she is standing away from the foot of my bed with her arms by her side. she does not glow, instead she is revealed in shifting partiality as patterns of light that do not exist move across her...

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tracks.

2009-06-27T18:01:15Z

three men sit in worn velvet armchairs, still dressed in fluorescent orange jackets and cargo pants crusty with paint. they drink beer and smoke, their conversation is loud enough to make a few others uncomfortable, and their voices are toned by t...

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walking stoner meets happy family.

2009-03-06T16:01:42Z

at two in the morning, getting home on foot. eyes are very red, bushfire moons. strangers converge on me at intersection, reveal familiar faces. shrugging away as he reaches out to pat me on the shoulder, walking again. 'are you sure you'll ...

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snakeskin.

2009-03-05T16:02:03Z

driving at night on main roads with no police everybody starts to speed. they have these tense little races with each other, overtaking at ninety kilometers an hour in an eighty zone. walking at night there is a compulsion to appear slightly da...

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spider.

2009-03-05T15:35:04Z

when i was a little kid somebody showed me the skin that a tarantula had shed. offered to let me hold it. i didn't because i was too scared that the husk would come alive in my hand and bite my wrist. half awake one morning i drank a cup of coff...

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berardino.

2009-03-05T15:17:31Z

when i was a kid i borrowed one of those choose your path horror stories from the library at school. my nonno picked me up that day and took my brother and i to glenferrie road, because my brother had his grading for taekwondo. while he was doing ...

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make yourself at home.

2009-01-26T12:26:32Z

i subscribed on wednesday. - two days later the first parcel arrived. i came home from work and carried it to my kitchen table. the kettle was boiling as i tore it open. contents are a box (glossy white cardboard, blue corporate insignia)....

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viva.

2008-09-20T21:28:54Z

i'd wandered past the shops for some of the morning, looking into the windows, feeling people brush past me. i went into the pharmacy through the sliding glass doors past larger than life testimonials of dieters and personal trainers. the girl at...

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earth conclusion (eye witness accounts of the end of the world).

2008-05-15T04:59:06Z

[the last thing i saw was a flock of sparrows sitting in a tree. feeling gravity shudder and swirl about them, they took flight with the spirals of golden autumn leaves, wings beating in the thinning atmosphere. and their last cries came to me di...

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roadkill.

2008-04-03T14:27:10Z

so, it was last night, i don't know about you, but my area had a blackout. i'm driving with my family in the car, all the streetlights are out, the houses, everything is pitch black, except for two steady streams of light, one white, the other red...

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