I was sitting in the living room with my parents when the news of the first lockdown came out. The three of us, clutching onto…
For a few years I lived in the Trastevere district of Rome. I rode a bicycle to work and bought groceries at the market. I…
We’re kind of violating the Byron shire’s notorious LoCaL’s oNLy attitude by sharing this secret spot, but frankly, we don’t really have time for it…
I woke up on the 1st of January this year in a double bed spooning two of my friends in their dad’s apartment in a…
“I need to buy some bin bags to shit in or there’ll be an explosion in the night,” said my fiancé of one month, roughly…
I notice the wildlife before the people. Between the hoards of holy cows and scavengers of the sky, there’s fierce competition for edible waste. I’m…
“Wow, there’s no way I could do that!” “It’s been a whole year since you’ve seen each other?” “Do you really have a boyfriend if…
When I arrived at his dilapidated treehouse, I complimented Michael on the taxidermy snake he had draped on his kitchen window sill. I found comfort…
It’s a look of adjustment. Coloured people have felt it since the ancient time, since the long, long ago when the sun stopped shining where…
We smiled and thrashed around in the pool because they told us to. We yelled out “Schoolies!” with our drinks in the air because they…
It was the eve of my 30th birthday: a painfully gorgeous afternoon in the south-east of Tasmania. A handful of friends and I were basking…
It’s been a whole year now of living with the spicy cough, and though in Australia we’ve been fairly bloody lucky to escape the brunt…
