If These Walls Could Talk
“If these walls could talk, do you think they'd talk about us?” Ava Eldred's fiction takes us to a bar that tightly holds onto the memories we'd rather forget. Read More
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Reclamation
Personal history writ large across the body: Alison Bond McNally explains the stories behind her tattoos, and all the times her body has been permanently changed. Read More
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Provenance
One wardrobe, passed from person to person, is at the centre of this enticing short story by Hattie Clarke. Read More
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The Cake is a Lie
Kayla King portrays all of womanhood in one stormy, singing poem. Read More
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Beneath the Mirror I Lay
Nostalgia spills from Tanisha Rao's poem on past selves and the traces they leave behind. Read More
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Half Circle
Everybody leaves their mark, right? Bodies, scars and absence are uncovered in Bridie Wilkinson's short fiction. Read More
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Diamond Dust
What has gone before lies beneath a frozen relationship, in Anna Myers' wintry short story. Read More
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Last Night
Red-wine breath and tear-stained cheeks. The events of a night are left behind as morning breaks but the impression remains, in Madeleine Accalia's poem – our opening piece for TRACE. Read More
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