Contents: Issue 8 – August 2016

Poetry

JACOB POLLEY

• Every Creeping Thing
• Lessons

LIZ LEFROY

• Adrift
• The Perfect Crime

BEN NORRIS

• The Perfect Time
• Nightswimming

ILSE PEDLER

• Meditations

ARIELLA CARMELL

• The Genetics of Chastity
• When Being Pursued

MARCI BATCHELOR

• Desert Concentrate

DAN O’BRIEN

• Eighty-Three
• Eighty-Seven

MARION OXLEY

• Casting Off
• 21 Heart Urchins

KASS BOUCHER

• Whirr and Click

JONATHAN COE

• The Downs

SHANNON LEWIS

• Salzburg
• London

LOUISA ADJOA PARKER

• How to be a good daughter
• Butterfly

MELISSA FU

• Nocturne

STUART HENSON

• It’s Not What You Know; it’s the Way That You Know It

REBECCA BIRD

• Stealth Confessional

DAVID CLARKE

• The Chicken Catchers
• When My Mother Worked in the Asylum
• To a Telephone Box
• Gilding the Acrobats

SOPHIE MCKEAND

• Eleven signs you are escaping insanity

KEITH HUTSON

• The Opener

Fiction

JOE STRETCH

• The Following Year

E CAPALDI

• End of Story

CLAYTON LISTER

• The Cracked Objective Lens

LINDSAY FISHER

• The Harried Nest

A W WILDE

• The Patchy Obituary of Enrico ‘Rico’ Paolini

FJ MORRIS

• Swings and Rocket Ships

OLGA WOJTAS

• Focal Dystonia

JULIE OLDHAM

• The Memory Mouse

Theatre

JINGAN YOUNG

• This War Is Familiar

ALEX BARR

• Touching the Tree

PETER RAYNARD

• Behind the Screens