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All my love affairs end in November. I don’t know whether it’s due to the alignment of the stars or the end of the school year or the fact that I’m a masochist who wants to give myself the most...
View ArticlePeeled, uncurling
I had a bath this morning, after sleeping like the dead and waking with the impression of crumpled linen on my face. The water was as hot as I could possibly stand and buried under clouds of white...
View ArticleWhat she said
I am no longer afraid of crocodiles. Almost every day for a week and a half, I navigated their river. I fished in it. I got mud in my shoes. I saw stars flare and flicker and shoot across the sky. I...
View ArticleUnder streetlights
There’s a buzz in my head—a cloudy, impatient fuzz. It gets like this if I don’t write for a couple of weeks. It usually begins with minor restlessness, often presenting itself as wanting to go out and...
View ArticleRainsong
These feelings come, like inspiration, through the cracks in the quiet of night-time, like spiders that bite when you’re asleep. When I see them trying to stick their spindly legs under the skirting...
View Article100 days and the Queen of Whatever
Leaving Melbourne felt like wading through molasses, sticky and slow-going, a series of blunders and clumsy patch-up jobs. Like a half-drunken stumble down the hallway in the middle of the night: hit...
View ArticleWaterweight
What about the roar and thunder of the falls? How, from above, the splashes up over the lip of the rock look like icicles? What about those grey-green gums, motionless against the iron sky, or the...
View ArticleGulf country
It’s May 14. Our lantern has run out of batteries, so I’m writing this in the amenities shelter in the campground at Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park. I’m writing on lined paper in a fine blue...
View ArticleNothing again, nothing
We spent weeks driving through sparse winter sunscapes, in such a rush to be somewhere else, in such a rush to be in a rush, stopping only for salt pans, salt plains, salt lakes, salt rock, salt...
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