SHAPES 2

“Just one insecure species trying to get an A+ at intergalactic show and tell. For as long as we can remember we’ve been left home alone and God we just wish our neighbours would drop by with some food and a hug.”

LiteraturePulp EditorsDecember 18, 2024Australiana, Australian literature

I see spots.

“Spots signify a pure kind of repulsive nothing [ ]. Possessing a type of purity that cannot be subsumed by any desire.”

LiteratureJames WilyDecember 18, 2024dreaming, dreams, eyes, mindfulness, thinking

Handpicked

“Last night I occupied the bathroom and its blue fluorescence, soaking it up like a greedy phantom. My reflection taunted me in this harsh light.”

Cate Chapman reflects

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LiteratureCate ChapmanDecember 18, 2024childhood, growing up, makeup

Neon Webs

“Sometimes I wish I had a million followers. I want people to listen to the songs I post. To think about the lyrics and how they might relate to me. Relate to me!!! So I can figure out who I am.”

Arwen Beaumont-Lee surfs the web.

LiteratureArwen Beaumont-LeeDecember 12, 2024internet, hinge

Ruins of Eternity

“Even this eternity will meet its end, and the world shall wait For another, and another, and another. The end is forever.”

LiteratureJoan de la KagsawaOctober 2, 2024phillipines, poetry, poetry collection

Song of the Weaver's Hands

“Etched in the fading hues and worn paths of ancient roads,

Marking the passage to memory's embrace.”

LiteratureZahra SaffarSeptember 23, 2024Iran, poetry, identity, history

Two case studies of fate: updated archetypes for our time

Obviously

And also you can’t read minds

As in I caught you!

And your psychic violence

Although I gave you these powers too

Your actual ones are far richer

LiteratureAva BroinowskiSeptember 23, 2024identity, growth

Falling-Star Disease

“The answer is you and I, it always is. In that sea of dust, there was nothing. Quiet, not a wave, not a sound. In that flat endless world, a soft and gentle breeze started to blow.”

LiteratureJesse CarpenterSeptember 23, 2024love, self-love, self-reflection