There’s a lot to think about, if you’re a questioning young person in 2018.
In this, our fifth anniversary collection, writers look impending threat straight in the eye—a woman tends her grandfather’s vegetable patch as the world freezes; bodies are broken and violated; a scientist contemplates a strange blue death; toxic rules for boys are conveyed by tweet; a dragon is more persuasive, in a story plot, than a lesbian couple. But even as our writers contemplate all that troubles them, there is redemption, even victory—a woman makes an astonishing visit to the Amazon; another defies the boyfriend who chronicles their impending break-up on post-it notes; a husband is lovingly supported through an uncanny obsession.
So much is here: satire, the surreal, sly humour, awe.
So much of it is tender. So much of it is dark.
The dragons are real, but…
Table of Contents
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Foreword |
1 |
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Introduction |
3 |
Short Stories |
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Sarah Tucker · Exit Stage Right |
7 |
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Charlotte Byrne · Georgy Girl |
15 |
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Steph Elliot Vickers · White Walls |
21 |
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Nanou Blair-Gould · Innocuous Disposition |
29 |
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Katharine Cheetham · Bruises |
33 |
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Andrew D’Arcy Collins |
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So I Finally Rescued My Piano |
39 |
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Ellenor Pickles · Daisy Girl |
45 |
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Molly Glinski · Transcript: Interview Room 2 |
49 |
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Jacob Bathgate · Fossils |
55 |
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Melissa Healey-Mullee · 99 In The Rain |
59 |
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Stiina Honkavaara · A Taste of God |
65 |
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Veslemøy Stavdahl · White Bird |
73 |
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Hanna Andersson · Compost |
79 |
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Yen-Yen Lu · Friends |
85 |
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Serena Michel |
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Ojos Que No Ven, Corazón No Siente |
93 |
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Glenn Shadbolt · The Happening Now |
101 |
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Frederik Helgesen ·Thank You, Mr Lighthouse |
111 |
Flash Fiction |
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Arun Jeetoo · The Exhibition of Margo |
117 |
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Thomas Cole · Fake Updates |
119 |
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Mehmet Suleyman · And Now You Know Her |
121 |
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Charlie-Anne Butterworth |
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Nuclear |
123 |
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Palace of the Babies |
124 |
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Liz McAnder · Fatigue |
126 |
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Jess Styles · Freaks Anonymous |
129 |
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Georgina Charles |
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Yujin |
132 |
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Yujin’s Mother |
134 |
Poetry |
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Sean Wai Keung |
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the spring bamboo |
139 |
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the new golden phoenix |
140 |
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Bronia Waldron · For Simon & Garfunkel |
141 |
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Natalie Howard · Make Me a Sandwich |
143 |
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Emma Strand · Bye-Bye Bluebird |
145 |
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Jacqueline Robinson · Cake Making |
147 |
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Kristina Kjønigsen · Hush, Little Baby |
155 |
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Anne Malewski |
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january |
157 |
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1920s charleston |
158 |
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Tess O’Hara · To Slinky Duvet Days |
159 |
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Milanta Petkauskaite · Collage One |
161 |
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Haley Jenkins ·Greyscale |
162 |
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Megan Lewis · Some of Myself |
163 |
Screenplays |
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Rosie King · A Picture of You |
169 |
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Jack Purkis · Audition #34 |
179 |
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Nadia Elaissaoui · Eager for Eden |
193 |
Creative Nonfiction |
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Cameron Turner · Those Aren’t Fireworks |
205 |
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Matthew Delicate · Etcetera |
206 |
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Max Blindell · Rules |
209 |
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Oana Liana Martisca · The City Between the Rivers |
210 |
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Lisa Gaultier · In Which Dragons Are Real But |
219 |
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Notes on Contributors |
221 |