Our legs dragged as we approached the traditional Indonesian restaurant, known as a warung, at the end of the street. Smokey grey fumes swirled from…
Content warning: Suicide and associated themes I lay cocooned in an old duvet on the hard hospital floor, drifting in and out of consciousness to…
I’m sat in an empty American-style diner on Melbourne’s Chapel Street when I hear the news. “We have a new PM,” she says, as casually…
The trainee clerk at 7/11 gives me a nervous smile as she fumbles my items through the scanner. I wait for her to see the…
I enter the hospital room and my body freezes. Before me stands a lifeless room full of clinical white light. Death lingers in the fringes,…
Long days. Cold nights. Fatigue and loneliness. Standing in the harsh sun, I’m surrounded by walls of tall jungle. Staring ahead at a steep overgrown…
Content warning: themes of sexual assault In the winter of New Delhi, the birds of prey drew imaginary circles below the smog; they wouldn’t be…
I just missed another friend’s wedding. A friend I have known since the age of 10. She sent me the invite months ago. Absolutely no…
The reactions are diverse when you tell someone you’ve decapitated a live chicken in Vietnam: I’ve been laughed at for my inept bravery, labelled as…
Get There: Drive to the end of Route 322 and park in the carpark — about 20 minutes from central Hakuba. At the very windy end…
Australians love Japan. We crave its sushi, we embrace getting pissed at karaoke, we marvel at the novelty of being naked in a public bathhouse….
I land in Hanoi the second week of February. Not winter, not summer, and not comparable to any other middle season in the rest of…
