5Sep 2026 Linda Sacco

Disconnected

The March Hare Bar is a popular nightspot in Melbourne, hidden in an alleyway of surrealist street art. If Jenna wasn’t always so busy studying psychology, doing work experience at a hospital and taking shifts in a restaurant, maybe she would have visited this place sooner. Her Maps app tells... Read More
27Jun 2026 Linda Sacco

Nostalgia in the Year of the Horse

After listening to a thirty-minute monologue from my neighbour about her daughter’s riding lessons, I had two thoughts. 1) I need a glass of wine and, 2) where are my childhood pony toys? “Mum, can you check the roof for something?” I asked over Facetime with a drink in hand.... Read More
27Mar 2026 Linda Sacco

Dream to Nightmare

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Fantastical mask. Useless diamond ring, a toy. Shed your second skin. Read More
editors note:

How to put a good face on it. – mh clay

13Oct 2025 Linda Sacco

Flickering

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Ancestor floats from room to room, lingering in doorways, tackling a step like Indiana Jones. I’m in limbo between two homes. Whilst she’s roughing us up with foreign curses, sleeping... Read More
editors note:

Though brief, make it bright. (We welcome Linda to our crazy congress of Contributing Poets with this submission. Read more of her madness on her new page – check it out.) – mh clay

7Jul 2025 Linda Sacco

Lost

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There is a lone ant crawling in my bathroom. (I imagine) it watches me colouring my hair, whitening my teeth, trying on suits, jeans and T-shirts. I stare at the... Read More
editors note:

Heisenberg Effect at play? – mh clay

25Mar 2025 Linda Sacco

Moving Slowly at 10am, Naples, Italy

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Puffs of cigarettes in every corner. The crackling speed of a motorbike snaking down tiny laneways, strangled by China-made Italian souvenirs. Impatient start to the morning (for a tourist –... Read More
editors note:

Don’t have to move to Naples to live La Dolce Vita – but it couldn’t hurt. – mh clay