- Creation story
Martha Barlow
“A junkyard. A pile of scraps. A veritable mountain of things
discarded and disused. A wasteland of the failed attempts to
build something meaningful, something that would last,
something that would not simply be destroyed by its inhabitants.
A heap of broken things, lost things, forgotten things …”
- A bird in a burnt forest
Jemima Bate
“Charcoal: All that remained of his bushland property stained his work boots black.
His home, his land, engulfed by fire and left charred with soot. This land, once his
childhood sanctuary, succumbed to nature and her wishes …”
- Prometheus
Jacob Carson
“The deep sanguine of proud avarice bled from the limp national
flag. It dripped behind the esteemed congregation of the
American upper- class and press …”
- My birdcage, your classroom
Kiara Simoes
“With every lethal gesture of my retractable pen, I itchingly
anticipated the catastrophic click that would propel one of my
precious classmates to their breaking point. My only amusement
in an otherwise shitty hour. Run-of-the-mill whiffs of
expired Aqium hand sanitiser, synthesised with the whispered
brush strokes of liquid white-out …”
