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18 March 2016

A Wilderness Revival by Bruce Costello
-  Elizabeth took off her wedding ring and flung it across the room. It ricocheted off the wall into the goldfish bowl and lay gleaming amid the waving oxygen weed ...

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18 January 2016

Kharma By Bruce Costello
-  "Is it true?" Janine asked, her voice trembling. Gary squirmed and turned away. ...

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14 December 2015

Agatha and I by Bruce Costello
-  Two years ago I chucked in my job, said good riddance to my husband, abandoned Auckland and came to live in this ramshackle country cottage that I bought over ...

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24 November 2015

Full Steam Ahead by Bruce Costello
-  "Bottoms up, girl!" Sitting cross-legged on the hotel bed, Cilla toasts the woman in the mirror with a brandy from the mini bar. Two quaffs empties the bottle. ...

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16 November 2015

Deepest Fears by Farzana Ali
-  My deepest fear was once being alone forever For the dreams and ambitions I have to be vanished forever ...

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26 October 2015

Halfway to Nowhere by Farzana Ali
-  Halfway to no where I don't know where this road leads ...

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1 September 2015

River Called Life by Farzana Ali
-  I'll cross that river when I get there There is no need to rush ...

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3 August 2015

Poisonous Touch by Farzana Ali
-  My mind is a graveyard of broken dreams Those I have dreamt of never survived to become a reality. ...

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3 August 2015

Skype Lesson by Bruce Costello
-  Professor Alvin Hollows peered into the mirror at the black hairs that hung from his broad nostrils like flies' legs. His eyebrows were unkempt hedges that tendrilled skyward and ...

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9 June 2015

When it is meant to be by Farzana Ali
-  Every thoughts that lingers The scent of your name is triggered ...

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2 June 2015

Emerald and Ruby by Gem Campagna
The plastic bottle rattled as I tipped out two more pills onto my hand. Taking a deep breath, I knocked them back dry and scrutinized in the mirror. Straighten up, ...

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20 May 2015

A Touching Tale by Bruce Costello
-  "Is that you, Sheryl? It's me! Hey, guess what! Jason's gone back to live with his father again and they're cutting my benefit! My case officer says I gotta ...

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19 May 2015

Fantasy vs the Reality by Farzana Ali
We have that specific dream which we want so badly The only thing we can think about and daydream about and hope for, so gladly Wondering what it would be ...

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13 May 2015

Claire Voyant by Bruce Costello
-  Claire had been on stress leave for two months now and was living in a kind of daze. Across the cafe table, her daughter, Justine, eighteen years old, seemed ...

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19 April 2015

In Search Of by Les Bush
"I am a student of life", he said; "the world is my university, books are my tickets to the lecture halls of wisdom; paintings portals to to the universe of the senses. My goal ...

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18 April 2015

We by Les Bush

THE living: unpredictable, inconsistent, perverse (even) as we may be in our faltering yet stubborn adherence to an absurd faith in the power of Love and Life; we have a final line of ...

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12 April 2015

A Torch of Hope by Les Bush

We, the living: unpredictable, inconsistent,perverse as we may be in our faltering yet stubborn adherenceto an absurd faith in the power of Love and Life.We have a final line of ...

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8 April 2015

Balloons by Les Bush

Would you hold my balloons please?I am troubled and sad.I have so many of them,I have lost count.I have balloons of many colours,shapes and size.Some I have earned,some I have ...

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7 April 2015

White Drowning by Loretta Proctor

Even before she knew what her name meant Jennifer wanted a white world.  On her sixth birthday party her mother dressed her in a beautiful snowy organza frock with little ...

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5 April 2015

Covert Action by Carol Grever
It’s come to this. Wordless dinners averted gaze silence-filled corners. Blue flash of TV dimly lights his den while she retreats to her own bed, book in hand door closed, each alone.   She runs away in her symbolic trophy car, compensation for compromise. She ...

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4 April 2015

Standing Still by Issy Mitchell

Laugh, if it’s not final Straight face and it stays Even in an echo The reason still remains Found within alignment Re-arrangement of the stars But touch them and they shatter Real and sharp edge shards Significant with ...

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2 April 2015

Reflecting On Age by James Giddings

I stand looking at the future in the past, A glance of a memory hoping it’ll last; But the dust will settle softly on the day And it will be covered as time ...

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1 April 2015

Charm The Air by Lesley Mace

‘Pass me that eye of dragon will you, Sylph?’ ‘You’re kidding right? Are you sure this is going to work?’ ‘Not really -- haven’t tried this one since the first Elizabeth was ...

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31 March 2015

An Arm and a Leg by Bruce Costello
-  "Robert's twenty-five years old, for goodness sake, and you've been engaged to him for five years," said her best friend Lizzie, when Julie confessed how unhappy she'd been feeling. ...